1. The crisis at the end of the sixteenth century -- 2. The time of troubles -- 3. The causes of civil disorder -- 4. Political reconstruction -- 5. Muscovy, Eastern Europe and the Ukraine -- 6. The Cossacks -- 7. Law and society -- 8. Local government and the class structure -- 9. The coming of serfdom -- 10. The Zemsky Sobor -- 11. Finances -- 12. Social critics -- 13. Russia and the West -- 14. The cultural pattern -- 15. The church schism -- 16. Tsar Alexei -- 17. A Muscovite statesman : Ordin-Nashchokin -- 18. V.V. Golitsyn and plans for reform
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Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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