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This book offers a comparative historical and sociological analysis of how social classes are formed and structured in four different societies — Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Rejecting traditional models based on occupational prestige, the author argues that class emerges from the evolving and habitual relationships between the state and civil society, shaped by political events, institutional arrangements, and policy decisions. The book explores how free markets, state interventions, civil-society dynamics, and historical trajectories interact to create, sustain, or dissolve class structures — providing a framework for understanding social stratification beyond economic determinism.

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