Russia and social structure?

Question

How did the Russian social structure promote privilege before the revolution?
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http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=3180&pc=9
Letters of Life in an Aristocratic Russian Household Before and After the Revolution Amy Coles and Princess Vera Urusov
Tyrras, Nicholas

Description
These letters, written over thirty-five years apart, may be read as chronicles from daily life in Russia. The letters by Amy Coles reflect a contemporary Englishwoman’s perspective on life in a Russian household from 1879-1883. Four decades later, her pupil, Princess Vera, chronicled the ruin and mortal danger that had befallen her and her mother following the Russian revolution. The juxtaposition of the letters reveals the enormous contrasts between privilege and persecution, comfort and penury, security and the threat of imminent death. These are historical accounts by eyewitnesses to Russian life before and after the revolution. With photographs.
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http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/WoodcockGeorge/ch_12.htmThere remains, then, only one way to a free society. That is by a struggle that will aim not at a political revolution, but at an entire revolution in social and economic relationships in which the state, class and property will be abolished at one and the same time. Thus the anarchist conception of the class struggle differs from the Leninist conception in that it does not envisage or in practice involve the stewardship of any class during a period of transition, but stands for the immediate ending of the social and economic system which involves the division of society into exploiters and exploited and in its place advocates a society where there will be no kind of exploitation and where, therefore, class divisions will be abolished. The only true class struggle is the struggle, not for the replacement of one class of rulers by another, but for the elimination of class itself.