By Maureen Perrie
ISBN-10: 0521812275
ISBN-13: 9780521812276
This primary quantity of the Cambridge heritage of Russia covers the interval from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the beginning of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the advance of Russia in the course of the Mongol invasions to the growth of the Muscovite country within the 16th and 17th centuries and offers with political, social, fiscal and cultural matters below the Riurikid and early Romanov rulers. the amount is organised on a essentially chronological foundation, yet a few basic issues also are addressed, together with the bases of political legitimacy; legislations and society; the interactions of Russians and non-Russians; and the connection of the country with the Orthodox Church. The overseas group of authors contains the most recent Russian and Western scholarship and provides an authoritative new account of the formative 'pre-Petrine' interval of Russian heritage, earlier than the method of Europeanisation had made an important influence on society and tradition.
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But in general the newest themes which have appealed to historians of Russia, both East and West, are not so different from those which have inspired historians of other parts of the world. 6 At the same time, it must be noted that the problematic nature of the sources for much of the pre-Petrine period, especially compared with the 2 English translations include: Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and his World, trans. : MIT Press, 1968); Ju. M. Lotman and B. A. Uspenskij, The Semiotics of Russian Culture, ed.
Weickhardt, Valerie A. Kivelson and Donald Ostrowski. Kivelson, while accepting Poe’s classification of her earlier work as falling within the parameters of the ‘Harvard school’, has recently made an ingenious attempt to reconcile the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ 15 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 m au r e e n pe r r i e The debate over the nature of the Muscovite political system also raises the issue of comparative perspectives. While some historians have argued for the uniqueness of pre-Petrine Russia, others have found it to have many features in common with other European and Asian societies.
Iii (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo sel’skokhoziaistvennoi literatury, 1949), pp. 317–29; L. S. Berg, Geograficheskie zony Sovetskogo Soiuza (Moscow: OGIZ, 1947). 21 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 0 400 km Barents Sea URA L M O U N TA White Sea Archangel N. a Vychegda St Petersburg (1703) Valdai Hills o kh Su INS Dv in na Volga W. 1. 1). This chapter will consider them roughly in the order in which they were encountered by the Russian peasants of our period: mixed forest, boreal forest, tundra, forest-steppe and steppe.
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