Vertical Social Mobility in Communist Society

Timasheff, N. S.

doi:10.1086/219494

Cited by 5 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…All of these distinctions existed in Soviet-era Russia. Not surprisingly, many theorists have characterized the class structure of the USSR and other state socialist nations as based on one or several of these dimensions (Timasheff 1944;Djilas 1957;Gouldner 1979;Konrad and Szelenyi 1979). These theories all point to two main factors as the defining features of class position in state socialist societies: bureaucratic authority, often equated with membership in the ruling Communist Party; and expertise.…”

Section: Understanding M Mobility I In Russia Classes In Soviet-era Russia?mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition

2004

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study analyzes intergenerational occupational mobility in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia using data from six surveys. Belying claims that class differences did not matter in the Soviet Union, the authors find that social origin did affect occupational opportunity during Russia's Soviet period. But the transition from state socialism to a market economy tightened the link between origins and destinations. Men and women were equally constrained by their social origin, even though they faced significantly different opportunity structures in both periods. As the economic transformation took hold, fewer Russians experienced upward mobility and more were downwardly mobile. Political and economic transition, not the demographic replacement of retiring cohorts by younger ones, strengthened the association between origins and destinations. Career mobility during the 1990s took the form of a regression toward origins, as workers who had the most upward mobility during the Soviet era lost the most in the transition to markets, abetting the reproduction of the class structure across generations as they fell.

show abstract

Section: Understanding M Mobility I In Russia Classes In Soviet-era Russia?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…True enough, concerted campaigns to create a "socialist intelligentsia" sparked high mobility from the working class to specialist occupations in the 1920s and early 1930s (Fitzpatrick 1979). But the Soviet regime abandoned these policies by the end of the 1930s (Timasheff 1944).…”

Section: Understanding M Mobility I In Russia Classes In Soviet-era Russia?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition

2004

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These questions are inspired more by issues in political sociology than by the questions that drive research on comparative intergenerational mobility, and they are ultimately motivated by questions about elite cohesion, regime stability, and political change. This tradition originated in questions raised long ago about whether a new "ruling class" had come to dominate the single-party dictatorships that were the legacy of the Russian revolution, especially after the ascendancy of Stalin (Trotsky 1937;Rizzi 1939;Burnham 1941;Moore 1944;Timasheff 1944;Djilas 1957;Konrad and Szelényi 1979).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Revolution, Reform, and Status Inheritance: Urban China, 1949–1996

Walder

Hu²

2009

American Journal of Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Do regime change and market reform disrupt patterns of intergenerational mobility? China's political trajectory is distinctive from that of other communist regimes in two ways. During its first three decades, the regime enforced unusually restrictive barriers to elite status inheritance. And during the subsequent market transition, unlike most of its counterparts, the Communist Party survived intact. Data from a multigeneration survey suggest that despite their obvious exclusion from the party and related administrative careers in the Mao era, certain prerevolution elites transmitted one type of elite status to their offspring to a surprising degree. Party elites, in contrast, were hit hard by radical Maoism but recovered quickly afterward, and their offspring inherited elite status at much higher rates.

show abstract

Social Stratification

Guins¹

1954

Soviet Law and Soviet Society

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Vertical Social Mobility in Communist Society

Cited by 5 publications

References 0 publications

Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition

Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility during Russia's Market Transition

Revolution, Reform, and Status Inheritance: Urban China, 1949–1996

Social Stratification

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About