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Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
By Smith, Douglas
- ISBN
- 978-0-37415-761-6
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Reviewed on October 1, 2012 | History
The wide discrepancy between the Russian peasant class (who made up 80 percent of Russia’s 19th-century population) and the nobility helped precipitate the Russian Revolution and the subsequent methodical elimination of the educated aristocratic class. Independent historian Smith (The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia) has meticulously researched the revolutionary and Soviet eras, focusing on two nobl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
