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

Lankina, Tomila V.

 
9781316512678: The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class
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ISBN 10: 1316512673 ISBN 13: 9781316512678
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

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 peasants. It demonstrates how the pre-communist bourgeoisie, particularly the merchant and urban commercial strata but also the high human capital aristocracy and clergy, survived and adapted in Soviet Russia. Under both Tzarism and communism, the estate system engendered an educated, autonomous bourgeoisie and professional class, along with an oppositional public sphere, and persistent social cleavages that continue to plague democratic consensus. This book also shows how the middle class, conventionally bracketed under one generic umbrella, is often two-pronged in nature – one originating among the educated estates of feudal orders, and the other fabricated as part of state-induced modernization.

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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.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2021
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1316512673
ISBN 13 
9781316512678
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Número de páginas
496
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