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This is Volume I of eight in a series on the Sociology of the Soviet Union. Originally published in 1948, the aim from the outset was to throw light both on Chekhov and on Russia, by trying to see Russia through Chekhov's eyes and to see Chekhov as the product of a particular age and country. CHEKHOV'S AIMS AND OPPORTUNITIES AS A REALIST CHAPTER II CHEKHOV'S RUSSIA-THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE-THE SCOPE OF HIS PICTURE CHAPTER III THE PEASANT CHAPTER IV THE LANDOWNER CHAPTER V THE OFFICIAL CLASS; ADMINISTRATION, JUSTICE, POLICE CHAPTER VI THE CHURCH CHAPTER VII THE INTELLIGENTSIA, EDUCATION AND THE LIBERAL PROFESSIONS CHAPTER VIII INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE. TOWN LIFE CHAPTER IX CHEKHOV'S VALUES