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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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• Plný název: Autocracy in the Provinces
• Podnázev: Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century
• Autor: Valerie A. Kivelson
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 396
• EAN: 9780804725828
• ISBN: 0804725829
• ID: 04716400
• Nakladatelství: Stanford University Press
• Hmotnost: 794 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 32 mm
• Datum vydání: 01. December 1996

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