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Russia in the Early Modern World
The Continuity of Change
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2022
Summary
A fundamental problem in studying early modern Russian history is determining Russia’s historical development in relationship to the rest of the world. The focus throughout this book is on the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period (1450–1800) and that those policies coincided with those of other successful contemporary Eurasian polities. The continuities occurred in the midst of constant change, but neither one nor the other, continuities or changes alone, can account for Russia’s success. Instead, Russian rulers from Ivan III to Catherine II with their hub advisors managed to sustain a balance between the two. During the early modern period, these Russian rulers invited into the country foreign experts to facilitate the transfer of technology and know-how, mostly from Europe but also from Asia. In this respect, they were willing to look abroad for solutions to domestic problems. Russia looked westward for military weaponry and techniques at the same time it was expanding eastward into the Eurasian heartland. The ruling elite and by extension the entire ruling class worked in cooperation with the ruler to implement policies. The Church played an active role in supporting the government and in seeking to eliminate opposition to the government.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3420-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-3421-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
560
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Contents No access
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Abbreviations No access
Three Historiographical Camps No access
Continuity and Change No access
Mise-en-scène: World No access
Mise-en-scène: Russia No access
Russia and Its Own Civilization No access
The Heartland No access
Excursus: Needham’s Grand Question No access
Notes No access
Preliminary Remarks No access
Theories of Russian Expansion No access
Ecosystems and Expansion No access
Expansion Northward to the White Sea No access
Expansion into Siberia No access
Expansion into the Steppe No access
Expansion Westward No access
Summing Up Expansion Strategies No access
Excursus: The Major Natural Environments Encountered during the Russian Expansion No access
Notes No access
Creation of a Ruling Class through Landholding No access
Incorporating New Nobility into the Ruling Class System No access
Governmental Administration No access
Excursus: Analysis of Jerome Blum’s Description of Pomest′e and Votchina No access
Notes No access
The Military Revolution and the Historians No access
Russia and the Military Revolution No access
Summing Up No access
Excursus: The Russian Navy Barely Stays Afloat No access
Notes No access
Cycles of Economic Activity and the Problem of Aberrational Evidence No access
Interconnections of the Economy of Early Modern Russia to the Outer World No access
Excursus: Gunpowder Manufacturing No access
Notes No access
Monarch-in-Council within a Ruling Class Model No access
Excursus: Incorporating Paradigms of the Military Fiscal State and Ruling Class No access
Notes No access
The Three-Corners of the Relationships No access
The Byzantine Context No access
Political Power Relations in Early Modern Russia No access
The Enlightenment (Prosveshchenie) Program of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ending of the Patriarchate No access
The End of the Patriarchate: What Did It Mean? No access
Results of the Church Reform No access
Excursus: Heads of the Rus′ Church: Metropolitans and Patriarchs No access
Notes No access
Icons and Painting No access
Chronicles No access
Other Russian Writing No access
Education No access
Printing and the Dispersal of Knowledge No access
Architecture No access
Opera No access
European Learning No access
Excursus: Chess: Combinations of Nomenclature No access
