The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class

by Tomila V. Lankina

A devastating challenge to the idea of communism as a 'great leveller', this extraordinarily original, rigorous, and ambitious book debunks Marxism-inspired accounts of its equalitarian consequences. It is the first study systematically to link the genesis of the 'bourgeoisie-cum-middle class' - Imperial, Soviet, and post-communist - to Tzarist estate institutions which distinguished between nobility, clergy, the urban merchants and meshchane, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316512673
• ISBN13: 9781316512678
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"