Russia's Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History: The Professions in Russian History

by Harley D. Balzer

This work describes the emergence of the professions in late tsarist Russia and their struggle for autonomy from the aristocratic state. It also examines the ways in which the Russian professions both resembled and differed from their Western counterparts.

Genres: Russia

352 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1995

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[Inna]

This collection of articles is an informed overview of the pre-1917 Russian professional middle class. The articles, addressing medical, engineering, educational, and administrative professions, all concentrate of patterns of professionalization and on how such patterns, i one way or another, conflicted with the wish of the government for control.