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Russia in the Early Modern World : The Continuity of Change.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostrowski, Donald G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--Russia--History.
- Social change.
- Economic history.
- Politics and government.
- Russia--Economic conditions.
- Russia.
- Russia--History.
- Russia--Politics and government.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (575 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- This study examines the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period in the midst of constant change. The author analyzes how Russian rulers from Ivan III to Catherine II-along with their hub advisors-managed to sustain a balance between the two in seeking solutions to problems the country faced.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Three Historiographical Camps
- Continuity and Change
- Mise-en-scène: World
- Mise-en-scène: Russia
- Russia and Its Own Civilization
- The Heartland
- Excursus: Needham's Grand Question
- Chapter 1: Ecological Zones and Expansion Strategies: The Russians Establish an Empire
- Preliminary Remarks
- Theories of Russian Expansion
- Ecosystems and Expansion
- Expansion Northward to the White Sea
- Expansion into Siberia
- Expansion into the Steppe
- Expansion Westward
- Summing Up Expansion Strategies
- Excursus: The Major Natural Environments Encountered during the Russian Expansion
- Chapter 2: Social Mobility and the Landowning Class: A Roadmap to Court Politics
- Creation of a Ruling Class through Landholding
- Incorporating New Nobility into the Ruling Class System
- Governmental Administration
- Excursus: Analysis of Jerome Blum's Description of Pomest′e and Votchina
- Chapter 3: Military Technology, Tactics, and Strategies
- The Military Revolution and the Historians
- Russia and the Military Revolution
- Summing Up
- Excursus: The Russian Navy Barely Stays Afloat
- Chapter 4: Gunpowder, Germans, and Iron: Early Modern Russia's Pre-Industrialized Economy
- Cycles of Economic Activity and the Problem of Aberrational Evidence
- Interconnections of the Economy of Early Modern Russia to the Outer World
- Excursus: Gunpowder Manufacturing
- Chapter 5: Governmental Institutions, Organizations, and the Legal System
- Monarch-in-Council within a Ruling Class Model
- Excursus: Incorporating Paradigms of the Military Fiscal State and Ruling Class
- Chapter 6: Three-Cornered Relationships: Church and State.
- The Three-Corners of the Relationships
- The Byzantine Context
- Political Power Relations in Early Modern Russia
- The Enlightenment (Prosveshchenie) Program of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ending of the Patriarchate
- The End of the Patriarchate: What Did It Mean?
- Results of the Church Reform
- Excursus: Heads of the Rus′ Church: Metropolitans and Patriarchs
- Chapter 7: The Icon and the Chronicle: An Interpretive Commentary on Early Modern Russian Culture
- Icons and Painting
- Chronicles
- Other Russian Writing
- Education
- Printing and the Dispersal of Knowledge
- Architecture
- Opera
- European Learning
- Excursus: Chess: Combinations of Nomenclature
- Conclusion
- Thematic Analysis
- Brief Narrative Overview
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Sources
- Studies
- Reference Works
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-2732-1
- 1-7936-3421-1
- OCLC:
- 1273426542
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