Structures of Society

by Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter

A category of persons best defined by what they were not, the raznochintsy--"people of various ranks" or "people of diverse origins"--inhabited the shifting social territory between nobles and serfs in preindustrial Russia. Neither merchants nor clergy nor military servicemen, they may have been by occupation administrative clerks, teachers, artists, retired soldiers, or street vendors. In official society, they were outsiders.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875801900
• ISBN13: 9780875801902
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher