The Social Structure of Society

Abstract

Soviet sociology found it difficult to construct realistic models of Soviet society in the face of severe political constraints. In the post-Soviet era Russian sociology is struggling to find a model that adequately encompasses the new social structure that is developing in Russia.In prerevolutionary Russia (i.e., up to 1917), the problem area of classes and estates, social stratification, made up the nucleus of sociophilosophical, and sociological thinking. In the Soviet period, up to the 1960s, the social structure became a field of heated ideological polemic.During the period of the "Khrushchev thaw" of the 1960s, the rebirth of sociological research in this field remained under rigid ideological control, since the formula of the social structure-the two classes (workers and peasants) plus the stratum of the intelligentsia-was absolute and changed only as a result of the latest party precepts about the English translation