The Cambridge history of Russia. Volume 1, From early Rus' to 1689 [electronic resource] / edited by Maureen Perrie.

Contributor Perrie, Maureen, 1946- editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Description1 online resource (xxii, 777 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note:From early Rus' to 1689 / edited by Maureen Perrie -- Russia's geographical environment / Denis J.B. Shaw -- The origins of Rus' (c.900-1015) / Jonathan Shepard -- Kievan Rus' (1015-1125) / Simon Franklin -- The Rus' principalities (1125-1246) / Martin Dimnik -- North-eastern Russia and the Golden Horde (1246-1359) / Janet Martin -- The emergence of Moscow (1359-1462) / Janet Martin -- Medieval Novgorod / V.L. Ianin -- The growth of Muscovy (1462-1533) / Donald Ostrowski -- Ivan IV (1533-1584) / Sergei Bogatyrev -- Fedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov (1584-1605) / A.P. Pavlov -- The peasantry / Richard Hellie -- Towns and commerce / Denis J.B. Shaw -- The non-Christian peoples on the Muscovite frontiers / Michael Khodarkovsky -- The Orthodox Church / David B. Miller -- The law / Richard Hellie -- Political ideas and rituals / Michael S. Flier -- The Time of Troubles (1603-1613) / Maureen Perrie -- The central government and its institutions / Marshall Poe -- Local government and administration / Brian Davies -- Muscovy at war and peace / Brian Davies -- Non-Russian subjects / Michael Khodarkovsky -- The economy, trade and serfdom / Richard Hellie -- Law and society / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- Urban developments / Denis J.B. Shaw -- Popular revolts / Maureen Perrie -- The Orthodox Church and the schism / Robert O. Crummey -- Cultural and intellectual life / Lindsey Hughes.

Note:This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and deals with political, social, economic and cultural issues under the Riurikid and early Romanov rulers. The volume is organised on a primarily chronological basis, but a number of general themes are also addressed, including the bases of political legitimacy; law and society; the interactions of Russians and non-Russians; and the relationship of the state with the Orthodox Church. The international team of authors incorporates the latest Russian and Western scholarship and offers an authoritative new account of the formative 'pre-Petrine' period of Russian history, before the process of Europeanisation had made a significant impact on society and culture.

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