Autocracy in the Provinces

Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Автор: Valerie A. Kivelson

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Издател: Stanford University Press

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This text explores the possibilities for rich and varied social, cultural, and political development...

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Автор

Valerie A. Kivelson

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1996

страници

396

EAN

9780804725828

ISBN

0804725829

Enbook ID

04716400

Издател

Stanford University Press

Теглоt

794

Размери

152 x 229 x 32

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This text explores the possibilities for rich and varied social, cultural, and political development under the rule of an autocratic state. Seventeenth-century Muscovite society was theocentric, highly traditional, largely illiterate, and deeply dependent on the state in all aspects of life, and therefore does not at all fit Western definitions of a civil society. Nevertheless, Muscovites found interstices in the overarching autocratic culture in which to conduct their own affairs as they wished. It is this arena of early-modern social autonomy that this book investigates, focusing on the nature and limits of autonomous activity among a small but important part of Muscovite society, the provincial gentry. The author situates Muscovite history within a comparative framework, demonstrating that seventeenth-century Russia was neither backward nor peculiar, but developed its own variant of the concurrent state-building processes of Western European monarchies. The author s comparisons enable us to understand and appreciate what the gentry of the Muscovite provinces did and thought, illuminating how they typified early-modern petty nobilities, notably in attempting accommodation with rising states and carving out autonomous spaces within and beneath state control.

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