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In nineteenth-century Russia, there was a shift from seeing society as limited to the noble estate to a broader definition that included all educated groups. This article traces this change from the 1830s to the 1870s and is the first to use the provincial newspapers (vedomosti) as a source for this question.

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It is important to show that the provinces were taking part in the intellectual life of the Russian Empire and that the empire itself was open to new, more inclusive ideas of society. For many years, the opposition between state and society was seen as the driving force of 19th century Russian history, so it is especially key to understand how people at the time understood the concept of society.

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This page is a summary of: Russian Society at a Provincial Scale, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, January 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/22102396-05004004.
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