The Soslovie (Estate) Paradigm and Russian Social History

Challenges of Empire: First Decades of Colonization in the Russian Far East (notes for discussion)

“…В тоже время, маньчжурские императоры к началу XIX в. создали миф о родине предков. Как показал Марк Эллиотт, этот миф поддерживался ежегодным паломничеством императора в Мукден, за-претом на ханьскую колонизацию Маньчжурии, и ужесточением знамен-ной системы [35]. Запрет на колонизацию в особенности оказал влияние на ситуацию в Уссурийском крае, сдерживая ханьскую миграцию в при-граничные районы.…”

Reviews

“…. is to move beyond the characterization of the English Reformation to an assessment of its legacy in increasing religious diversi cation' (2) and explore the lasting effects on the beliefs and practices of the laity which resulted from Henry VIII's break with Rome and the implementation of a Protestant agenda under Edward VI. It is a quest which takes us beyond the end of Elizabeth's reign and well into the seventeenth century, prompting questions about 1890-1935(New York, 1994; Susan Pedersen, Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945(New York, 1993.…”

Creating a Creole Estate in early nineteenth-century Russian America

“…23 Freeze notes that "the estate system was dynamic and still actively developing (not disintegrating) in the nineteenth century." 24 There were four main social conditions (sostoianiia), with many estates in each one.…”