Enserfment and military change in Muscovy [electronic resource] / Richard Hellie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hellie, Richard.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Serfdom--Russia.

Serfdom.

Peasants--Russia.

Peasants.

Russia--History, Military.

Russia.

Peasants--Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 432 p.) map ;

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1971.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

1. Introduction

Part I. The Rise of the Middle Service Class

2. The Creation of the Middle Service Class

3. The Conscious Rise of the Middle Service Class

Part II. The Enserfment of the Russian Peasantry

4. The Introduction of St. George's Day

5. The "Forbidden Years"

6. The Statute of Limitations on the Recovery of Fugitive Peasants

7. Repeal of the Statute of Limitations

8. Consequences of the Repeal of the Statute of Limitations

Part III. The Gunpowder Revolution in Muscovy

9. The Beginnings

10. Major Reform Aborted

11. The Triumph of Reform

12. The Old Army after the Reform

13. The Legacy of the Reform

14. The Persistence of Serfdom

APPENDIX: The Military Forces of Muscovy

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 387-412.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-226-32646-2