UNIVERSAL CHARACTERISTICS AND NATIONAL PECULIARITIES                                                            OF ESTATES' EXISTENCE B.N. CHICHERIN'S CONCEPT                 

Lobeeva Vera Mikhaylovna, Candidate of philosophy, associate professor, sub-department of philosophy, history and sociology, Bryansk State Technical University, doktor70@bk.ru 

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The paper analyses the main ideas of the teaching about estates by B. N. Chicherin. Special attention is paid to such peculiarities of the existence of estates in Russia as the influence of the state on their formation, the discovery of their social-political role, social functions and the prospects of their development. 

estates, state, enslavement, liberation, social hierarchy, social role.