Ebook: Nobility and Privilege in Late Imperial Russia

Dekalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985. — 259 p.
This book is an examination of several crucial aspects of the history of the nobility during that period of rapid social change; the changing relationships of the nobility to the land and to traditional occupational roles, the significance of the campaign waged by the self-appointed traditionalist defenders of noble interests and of the response they evoked from both the nobility and the state, and the emergence of a class of substantial landed proprietors out of the noble estate.Contents
Preface
"The Decline of the Nobility"
The Nobility and the Land: A Reappraisal
The Traditionalist Counterattack
Exercises in Futility: Attempts to Stabilize Noble Landownership
Sharing Noble Status: Problems of Membership
Changing Career and Educational Patterns
Further Exercises in Futility: Attempts to Restore Noble Leadership in the Countryside
The Birth of a Class: Noble Landowners in Revolution and After Conclusion: Nobility, Autocracy, and Revolution
Appendices
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index