Autocracy in the Provinces: The Muscovite Gentry and Political Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Author/Contributor(s):	Kivelson, Valerie A
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/01/1996
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This book explores the possibilities for rich and varied social, cultural, and political development under the rule of an autocratic state. 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.