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Autocracy in the Provinces - The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover, Anniversary)
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Autocracy in the Provinces - The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover, Anniversary)
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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 dependent on the
state in all aspects of life, and therefore does not at all fit
Western definitions of a civil society. Nevertheless, Muscovites
found interstices in the overarching autocratic culture in which to
conduct their own affairs as they wished. It is this arena of
early-modern social autonomy that this book investigates, focusing
on the nature and limits of autonomous activity among a small but
important part of Muscovite society, the provincial gentry.
The author situates Muscovite history within a comparative
framework, demonstrating that seventeenth-century Russia was
neither backward nor peculiar, but developed its own variant of the
concurrent state-building processes of Western European monarchies.
The author's comparisons enable us to understand and appreciate
what the gentry of the Muscovite provinces did and thought,
illuminating how they typified early-modern petty nobilities,
notably in attempting accommodation with rising states and carving
out autonomous spaces within and beneath state control.
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