Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725 : Assessing the Significance of Peter's Reign / Endre Sashalmi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sashalmi, Endre, 1964- author.

Series:

Russian titles for the specialist.

Russian Thought in Context Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feofan, Archbishop of Novgorod, 1681-1736--Influence.

Feofan.

Nation-building Russia--History.

Nation-building Russia.

Political culture--Russia--History.

Political culture.

Political science--Russia--History.

Political science.

Power (Social sciences)--Russia.

Power (Social sciences).

Russia--History--Peter I, 1689-1725.

Russia.

Russia--Politics and government.

Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725--Influence.

Peter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2022]

Summary:

The book highlights the main features and trends of Russian "political" thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent at all in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated there. A comparison with Western Christendom frames the argument throughout the book.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Explanation of Aims, Genre, and Terminology

Part One: Russia and Europe: Clarification of Terms and the Problem of the State

1. Issues of Methodology, Reception, and the Benefits of a Long-Term Approach

2. Territoriality, the Name, and the Nature of the Polity: From the Principality of Moscow to the Russian Empire

3. The Idea of the State in Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era

4. The Role of Metaphors and Allegorical Personifications in the Development of the Concept of the State in Western Christendom

5. The Meaning(s) of the European Perspective

6. The Birth and Meaning of the “Russian State Narrative”

7. The Consequences of the State Narrative: The Discovery of Gosudarstvo by Russian History-Writing

8. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Muscovite Perceptions of Ruling Power: Characteristics and Methodological Aspects of a Comparison with Western Christendom

9. The Problem of Samoderzhavie

Part Two: Notions of Power and State in the Context of “Proprietary Dynasticism”: Russia and the Western Perspective

10. Richard Pipes’s Patrimonial Interpretation of Russia Reconsidered in the Light of “Proprietary Dynasticism”

11. Aspects of Rulership and Their Relation to Each Other in Early Modern Europe and Russia: Proprietary, Office, and Divine Right

12. Divine Right of Kings and Divine Right of Tsars: Aspects and Lessons of a Comparison

Part Three: The Origins of Theory of Law and State in the Works of Feofan Prokopovich: An Intellectual from the Kievan Nest in the Service of Peter the Great

13. Turning Points in the Life of Feofan Prokopovich, and His Most Important Political Works

14. Preliminary Notes on Prokopovich’s Theory of Law and State

15. Power, State, Law, Sovereignty, and Contractualism in Feofan Prokopovich’s Writings

16. Female Allegorical Personification of Russia during the Reign of Peter the Great and His Successors: Visual and Written Sources, and the Notion of State

Epilogue: The Importance of Gosudarstvennost′ in Contemporary Russia

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sashalmi, Endre Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725

ISBN:

9781644694183

1644694182