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Offers new perspectives on the old problem of Russia's 'missing' middle class, by taking us far from the thematic and chronological limits conventionally imposed on our views of this social group. We get a new sense of the vigor and scale of the emerging 'commercial culture' and its celebration of a marketplace of values in Russia before 1917. Dan Healey, University of Wales, Cultural and Social History 2004 1 (1)

Alexopoulos explores the phenomenon of Lishentsy-those whom the Bolshevik regime categorized as 'exploiters' and the first Soviet constitution of 1918 formally disenfranchised. . . . This book suggests several important findings. Apart from details about the group's social profile (for example, gender, occupation, and ethnicity), it demonstrates the profound change in the meaning of this category from the mid-1920s-namely, from merely denoting exclusion from the electoral system to designation a group subject to pervasive discrimination and acute economic deprivation (which, for some, included deportation and hard labor). . . . It explores a new complex of sources and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Soviet social history. -Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis University, Slavonica Vol. 10 No. 2, 2004

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Golfo Alexopoulos is Associate Professor of Russian/Soviet History at the University of South Florida.

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