Book contents
- Reviews
- The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia
- The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Notes on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- 1 Theorizing Post-Revolutionary Social Resilience
- 2 From Imperial Estates to Estatist Society
- 3 Mapping Society and the Public Sphere in Imperial Russia
- 4 The Professions in the Making of Estatist Society
- 5 Education, Socialization, and Social Structure
- 6 Market Values and the Economy of Survival
- 7 Family Matters: Looking Back – and Forward – in Time
- 8 Society in Space
- 9 The Two-Pronged Middle Class: Implications for Democracy across Time and in Space
- 10 The Bourgeoisie in Communist States: Comparative Insights
- Afterword
- Supplementary Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - The Bourgeoisie in Communist States: Comparative Insights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
- Reviews
- The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia
- The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Notes on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Dramatis Personae
- 1 Theorizing Post-Revolutionary Social Resilience
- 2 From Imperial Estates to Estatist Society
- 3 Mapping Society and the Public Sphere in Imperial Russia
- 4 The Professions in the Making of Estatist Society
- 5 Education, Socialization, and Social Structure
- 6 Market Values and the Economy of Survival
- 7 Family Matters: Looking Back – and Forward – in Time
- 8 Society in Space
- 9 The Two-Pronged Middle Class: Implications for Democracy across Time and in Space
- 10 The Bourgeoisie in Communist States: Comparative Insights
- Afterword
- Supplementary Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses how the preceding analysis has wider, portable, comparative implications for understanding the drivers of variations in shades of authoritarianism and illiberalism in other communist legacy countries. I structure the chapter as follows. I first sketch out an analytical framework for a comparative analysis of two new cases: Hungary and China. The section also delineates limitations of scope and restrictions in applications to the universe of communist states and beyond. I then proceed to analyze each case with reference to the key variables of interest. A final section concludes with reflections on the utility of the framework for understanding social inequalities and the long shadow of premodern societies in effecting democratic vulnerabilities and resilience in the present-day illiberal world.
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- The Estate Origins of Democracy in RussiaFrom Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class, pp. 355 - 391Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021