Soviet Social Classes and the Study of the Soviet Transformation

Author: Huang Li ()
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is an original academic work. The author visited Russia twice to meet top scholars in sociology and history, collecting over 10,000 pages of Russian literature and fully incorporating the latest Russian academic research. The book provides a new sociological interpretation of the social history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991—dividing Soviet society into a managerial group with position-based power resources and a labor group with knowledge or labor skills. Within these two social groups, eleven social strata are further classified based on the scale of power and the level of knowledge or labor skills. It analyzes the interests, conflicts, and contradictions among these social strata in relation to the economic and political systems. From the perspective of the interaction between social stratum behavior and institutional change, the book explores the transformation of the Soviet social structure and the dramatic changes in the Soviet Union. This book is an academic monograph that systematically studies the social history of the Soviet Union in China. Experts from the National Social Science Fund evaluation committee praised it as "a pioneering academic work that has made breakthrough progress in the study of the Soviet Union's dramatic changes."