By the early medieval ages, Vainakh society had become stratified into a feudal order, with a king and vassals.

The provinces of the republic were, in official feudal order:

It was then a forcing ground for the new classes establishing themselves and exerting their power against the existing feudal order.

Their thoughts were criticisms for the dominant feudal order.

Serfs in a feudal order that gives them no opportunity for development.

The old feudal order was passing away.

But there is an odd feeling, too, of a hint of a return to a feudal order.

The canal is described by Virdi to signal the imminent end of the feudal order.

As elsewhere in Europe, the feudal order was based on the principle that landholding was tied to certain duties.

It was reactionary in nature and sought to preserve the feudal order.