Social Divisions: The Middle Classes

Question 1

What was the traditional legal structure of Russian class?

Answer 1

-based on four groups
-nobles, merchants, clergy + peasantry

Question 2

What was happening to these groupings?

Answer 2

-challenged by emergence of small by influential middle stratum that expanded as pace of econ change quickened

Question 3

Where was there social mobility?

Answer 3

-new business + professional men able carve out comfortable lives
-nobles’ sons chose to join business work or peasants rose through hard work to join ranks of middle management

Question 4

How did this group grow?

Answer 4

-grew as a force as management + professional positions became more demanded
-plenty opportunities for enterprising in Rus with development of infrastructure

Question 5

What else fuelled a growing middle class?

Answer 5

-growing of education
-demand for more administrators

Question 6

What was the new industrial society?

Answer 6

-Rus industrialising society required specialists + professional training
-by 1914 growing numbers of ‘new positions’ like managers, pharmacists + civil engineers

Question 7

What happened to the number of certain professions?

Answer 7

-number doctors increased from 17k to 28k 1897-1914
-number graduate teachers doubled 1906-14