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Originally Posted by jadis
For example, the societal division in pre-Revolutionary Russia was based on "sosloviya" (such as nobility, clergy, peasants, merchants, townsmen etc), not classes. In order to bring society towards something resembling Marxist ideas of class the communists had to do a lot of purges of "counterrevolutionary class enemies" in the 1920s and 1930s and even then a lot of confusion remained.
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Getting back to this: maybe we're defining 'class' differently, but I assume some of these sosloviya had a higher social status than others, and there would be differences between culture, language etc. between some of these groups. To me that counts as a class: a social hierarchy mainly determined by birth, with cultural and often economic consequences