Social Identity in Imperial Russia Wirtschafter Paperback 9780875807287

Social Identity in Imperial Russia\nby Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter\nTitle: Social Identity in Imperial Russia\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: MB - Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9780875807287\nISBN-10: 0875807283\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHow did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And how did they reconcile their professed ideals of equality and justice with the authoritarian political structures in which they lived? Historian Elise Wirtschafter turns to literary plays to reconstruct the social thinking of the past and to discover how...\n\nHow did enlightened Russians of the eighteenth century understand society? And.