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In English
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Description:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Equality as an Issue -- Chapter Two: Tradition, Deference, and Egalitarianism -- Chapter Three: Old Hierarchy and New -- Chapter Four: Socialism, Revolution, and Mobility -- Chapter Five: Contemporary Mobility: Aspirations, Barriers, Outcomes -- Chapter Six: The Stratification of Incomes -- Chapter Seven: The Structure of Socialist Households -- Chapter Eight: Socialism and Hierarchy in Perspective -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Studies three issues; socialism, in the shape of political economic systems of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; politics, and how it has shaped this socialism; and equality, in the areas of power, prestige, material possessions and the opportunity to strive for these