Society of the Russian Empire

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forced distribution of Jewish population in the Russian Empire

An ' (, ; ) or (, ; ), also officially termed as a rural community' (; ) between the 19th and 20th centuries, was a peasant village community (as opposed to an individual farmstead), or a khutor, in Imperial Russia. The term derives from the word (, literally "common").

Burkhanism, known endonymically as Ak Jang ( ; ), is an indigenist new religious movement that flourished among the Altai people of Russia's Altai Republic between 1904 and the 1930s. The Russian Empire was suspicious of the movement's potential to stir up native unrest and perhaps involve outside powers. The Soviet Union ultimately suppressed it for fear of its potential to unify Siberian Turkic peoples under a common nationalism.

Russian serfs were agrarian peasants legally bound to the land owned by nobility and who were deprived of rights and forced to provide free labor.

form of autocracy specific to Grand Duchy of Moscow and later Tsardom of Russia and Russian empire

census carried out in the Russian Empire

privileged social class in the Russian Empire

Pochvennichestvo ( ; , roughly "return to the native soil", from почва "soil") was a late 19th-century movement in Russia that tied in closely with its contemporary ideology, Slavophilia.

shooting of striking miners in northeast Siberia on 17 April 1912

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Russian literary society

thumb|250px|right|Odnodvorets woman from Kursk Governorate

In the Russian Empire, inorodtsy () (singular: inorodets (), literally meaning "of different descent/nation", "of alien origin") was a special ethnicity-based category of population that received a special treatment under the law. Informally, the term referred to all non-Slavic subjects of the empire.

class of peasantry in 18th–19th century Russia considered personally free but tied to the land

(; ; ) was an official category introduced in the Digest of Laws of the Russian Empire in the 17th century for a social estate that included the lower court and governmental ranks, children of personal dvoryans, and discharged military. The category of grew significantly during the massive trimming down of the category of service class people () in the second half of the 17th century. were of taxable estate, meaning those who had to pay poll tax (). In the mid-18th century the category was abolished and a significant part of were transferred into peasantry, but many became merchants and variou