 | Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals): A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism Subjects: Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Sociology & Social Policy; History; European Politics; Political Philosophy; European History; Russian & Soviet Politics; Marxism & Communism; Political Sociology; Social Class; First published in 1978, this uniquenbsp;work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporarynbsp;Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms, the people who enjoyed them. This study is based on an extensive programme of personal interviews among emigré groups and a close analysis of original and little-known legal historical sources. There are special sections on the nature of change in the Soviet elite and on social mobility. This reissue will attract interest amongst students and scholarsnbsp;concerned with the history, politics and sociologynbsp;ofnbsp;thenbsp;Soviet Union; it will also be ofnbsp;value to all those concerned with the age-old problem of social equality. |
