Social Identity in Imperial Russia

Preface ix CHAPTER ONE THE INSTITUTIONAL SETTING 3(18) State and Empire Building 4(5) Family and the Imperial Framework 9(12) CHAPTER TWO "RULING" CLASSES AND SERVICE ELITES 21(41) Landowning Nobility 22(15) Civil and Military Servicemen 37(12) Clergy 49(11) Conclusion 60(2) CHAPTER THREE MIDDLE GROUPS 62(38) "People of Various Ranks" 63(8) Commercial-Industrial Elites and Semi-Elites 71(15) The Professions and Intelligentsia 86(10) Toward a Definition of the Russian Middle 96(4) CHAPTER FOUR LABORING PEOPLE 100(63) Peasants 101(29) Townspeople 130(10) Workers 140(21) Conclusion 161(2) CONCLUSION Integration and Disintegration 163(12) Abbreviations 175(2) Notes 177(46) Selected Bibliography 223(32) Index 255