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Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Kivelson, Valerie A.

Hardcover

Eastern European HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 0804725829
ISBN13: 9780804725828
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 1996
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book 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.

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