Social stratification of Soviet society (1917-1930’s). Modern concepts and approaches
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2020-4-167-175
Abstract
The article analyzes modern approaches to studying the social stratification of Soviet society in the 1917-1930’s in the humanities. Modern science is characterized by an interest in social stratification within the framework of sociology. Among the scholars of that science there is a rejection of the classical representation for the stratification of society whereas a new theoretical approach is created, associated with an idea of the existence of more than three classes in Soviet society (works by Zinaida T. Golenkova, Vladimir I. Ilyin and Ovsei I. Shkaratan). In the 21st century, social stratification becomes the object for studying by some culture researchers exemplarily Irina V. Glushchenko considers classes through the prism of the formation of the food culture by the Soviet government. The today history formed several approaches to the study of the concept: works within the framework of the new social history (Sh. Fitzpatrick), among which the study of social stratification in its connection with public catering (E.V. Barysheva, A.A. Ilyukhov, T.S. Kondrat’eva); research conducted using methods of the everyday history (for example, Sh. Fitzpatrick, Natalia B. Lebina, E.A. Osokina, etc.).
About the Author
A. S. Moskalevich
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksandra S. Moskalevich - postgraduate student.
Bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow
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Moskalevich A.S. Social stratification of Soviet society (1917-1930’s). Modern concepts and approaches. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2020;(4/2):167-175. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2020-4-167-175
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