Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century by Valerie A. Kivelson

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

Valerie A. Kivelson

396 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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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. Seventeenth-century Muscovite society was theocentric, highly traditional, largely illiterate, and deeply d...

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