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Balzer, Harley D. (ed). Russia's Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History. Armonk, N.Y.:
M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
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A valuable survey of most of the professional groups that developed in nineteenth
century Russia. The scholarship is careful and based on extensive research. It will
be a must for anyone concerned with the social or political history of Imperial Russia.
All the essays ... are solid and interesting. ...A landmark study of the Russian
professions. The fundamental research of the authors represented here will be crucial
for future endeavors in the field. East/West Education
The only really serious book currently available on its subject. It should foster
a renewed appreciation of the crucial importance of the professions in the last century
and a half of Russian history. Revolutionary Russia