"THE FORMER NOBILITY" IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE SOVIET ERA
The article poses the problem of the “survival” of the nobility in the conditions of the Soviet era. A typology of “former exploiters” is offered, the features of legal, ideological, social and political pressure of the new authority on the nobility are revealed. The study concludes that, despite all the efforts of the new government to destroy the class of “exploiters”, the value system, culture, customs and traditions of the nobility were preserved in all possible ways.