Sergei Feodorovich Platonov's "Time of Troubles" is a classic study
of the years 1598-1613, a turbulent and decisive period in Russian
history. Available for the first time in English, this work will be
a valuable tool for students of the medieval as well as modern
periods.
Platonov, himself a tragic victim of the regimentation imposed
on Soviet cultural life in the 1920s, was born in 1860 and attained
immense public and professional recognition in Russia as a leading
historian. In his work he synthesized, to a high degree, two major
traditions of Russian historiography: the St. Petersburg "school,"
which emphasized the collection and rigorous use of primary
sources, and the Moscow "school" with its socioeconomic and
geopolitical approaches. Time of Troubles represents the finished
product of a lifetime spent in research, writing, and teaching. In
broad terms it treats nearly a century and a half of Russian
history (1500-1648); in detail it scrutinizes developments in the
Muscovite State from 1598 to 1613. Some of the major issues covered
in this volume are: the growing consolidation of Muscovite
absolutism and the formation of a national state; the expansion of
Muscovy to the west and southeast; the demise of the boyar class
and the rise of the service-gentry; the emergence of serfdom as the
social basis of Muscovite society; the cataclysmic end of one
dynasty, the House of Rurik, and the beginnings of another, the
House of Romanov. For Platonov--who devoted most of his career as a
scholar to the study of these dramatic years--the epoch marked
nothing less than the great divide between medieval Muscovy and
modern Russia, witnessing the downfall of an essentially
patrimonial regime and its replacement, after fierce struggles, by
a more modern state founded on a new constellation of social
groups.
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