Autocracy in the Provinces The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century |
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| Author:
| Kivelson, Valerie A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-2582-8 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1996 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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This book explores the possibilities for rich and varied social, cultural, and political development under the rule of an autocratic state. 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.
This book explores the possibilities for rich and varied social, cultural, and political development under the rule of an autocratic state. 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.