Download or read book For the Common Good and Their Own Well-being written by Alison Karen Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every subject of the Russian Empire had an official, legal place in society marked by his or her social estate, or soslovie. This book looks at the many ways that soslovie affected individual lives, and traces its legislation and administration from the early eighteenth through to the early twentieth century.