Title Modernizing Muscovy : reform and social change in seventeenth-century Russia / edited by Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe

Published London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 489 pages) : illustrations Series RoutledgeCurzon studies on the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 1 RoutledgeCurzon studies on the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 1. Contents Modernization in the early modern context : the case of Muscovy / Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe -- The sixteenth-century legacy / Janet Martin -- The expanding role of the state in Russia / Richard Hellie -- Bureaucratic administration in seventeenth-century Russia / Peter B. Brown -- Modernization of law in seventeenth-century Muscovy / George B. Weickhardt -- Absolutism and the new men of seventeenth-century Russia / Marshall Poe -- The assembly of the land (zemskii Sobor) as a representative institution / Donald Ostrowski -- Mercantilism in pre-petrine Russia / Jarmo T. Kotilaine -- The arkhangel'sk trade, empty state coffers, and the drive to modernize : state monopolization of Russian export commodities under Mikhail Fedorovich / Maria Solomon Arel -- The Thirty Years' War, the Smolensk War and the modernization of international relations in Europe / Paul Dukes -- European mercenary officers and the reception of military reform in the seventeenth-century Russian army / William R. Reger, IV -- Modernizing the military : Peter the Great and military reform / Carol B. Stevens -- Rebellion and reformation in the Muscovite military / Graeme Herd -- Church reform and the "white clergy" in seventeenth-century Russia / Debra Coulter -- The patriarch's rivals : local strongmen and the limits of church reform during the seventeenth century / Georg B. Michels -- Secularization and westernization revisited : art and architecture in seventeenth-century Russia / Lindsey Hughes -- The administration of Western medicine in seventeenth-century Russia / Eve Levin -- A Jesuit Aristotle in seventeenth-century Russia : cosmology and the planetary system in the Slavo-Grego-Latin academy / Nikolaos A. Chrissidis -- Society, identity and modernity in seventeenth-century Russia / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- Discovering individualism among the deceased : gravestones in early modern Russia / Daniel H. Kaiser -- Peter and the seventeenth century / Paul Bushkovitch Summary Discusses the nature and extent of 'modernization' in seventeenth century Russia, before Peter the Great's accession, showing that, contrary to the popular view, therewas a great deal of modernization in this period Notes Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Russia -- Politics and government -- 1613-1689 HISTORY. Civilization Politics and government SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1613-1689 Russia (Federation) -- History -- 1613-1689 Russia (Federation) -- Civilization -- 17th century Russia -- Politics and government -- 1613-1689. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125835 Subject Russia (Federation) Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Kotilaine, Jarmo Poe, Marshall LC no. 2003066251 ISBN 0203507037 9780203507032 9780415307512 0415307511 9780203497739 0203497732 9780203582428 020358242X 9786610103799 6610103798 1138976326 9781138976320 1134397437 9781134397433 1280103795 9781280103797 1134397429 9781134397426

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