Soviet social scientists have created an extensive literature covering the formation and improvement of a mature socialist society, the economic and social processes taking place in it, national and cultural development. Nevertheless, the study of the problems of developed socialism, including the social and class structure of Soviet society, remains one of the most urgent tasks. The dynamics of changes in the social and professional structure of the working class, collective farm peasantry and people's intelligentsia of the Union republics in the available works 1 are considered mainly in methodological terms without sufficient involvement of specific material. In addition, the publications of the second half of the 60s and 70s did not take into account, of course, the social processes that took place in subsequent years. Changes in the economic and social spheres of life of the autonomous republics, the general and special features of their development within the framework of the new historical community - the Soviet people, have not been analyzed in the literature. There are no special generalizing studies on the social structure of the Dagestan ASSR. The available works mainly take separately the social changes that have taken place in the working class2 , the peasantry3, and the intelligentsia4 of the republic. Taken, vpro- 1 Of the newest works, see: Modern ethnic processes in the USSR, Moscow 1977; Convergence of the socio-class structure of Soviet nations and nationalities, Moscow 1977; Trends in the socio-class structure of Soviet nations and nationalities, Moscow 1978; Experience of ethnosociological research of the way of life, Moscow 1980; Kulichenko M. I. Rastsvet and convergence of nations in the USSR M. 1981; Rutkevich M. N. Formation of social homogeneity. M. 1982; Senyavsky S. L. Social structure of the Soviet society in the conditions of developed socialism (1961-1980). M. 1982; Arutyunyan Yu. V., Drobizheva L. M. Social structure of the Soviet nat ... Читать далее