Tomila V. Lankina

The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia

From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class

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Produktbeschreibung

Lankina reveals how Imperial Russia's social structure survived the Bolsheviks' social engineering projects and continues to drive inequalities and democracy now. This is essential reading for students and scholars of Russian politics, society and history, and of comparative politics and sociology, especially those studying democratic development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 495
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 797g
• ISBN-13: 9781009068987
• ISBN-10: 1009068989
• Artikelnr.: 70724484

Autorenporträt

Tomila Lankina is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has previously authored two books and has published widely in top disciplinary journals on democracy, authoritarianism, mass protests, and historical patterns of human capital and democracy in Russia and other states.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theorizing post-revolutionary social resilience
2. From imperial estates to estatist society
3. Mapping society and the public sphere in imperial Russia
4. The professions in the making of estatist society
5. Education, socialization, and social structure
6. Market values and the economy of survival
7. Family matters: looking back - and forward - in time
8. Society in space
9. The two-pronged middle class: implications for democracy across time and in space
10. The bourgeoisie in communist states: Comparative insights charting a comparative foreword
Afterword
Supplementary appendices: A. Archival sources
B. The 1897 census
C. District matching
D. Interview questionnaire
E. Illustrative Genealogies.