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xvii, 445 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
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I. The East Slavs and Kievan Rus' (860s-ca. 1150). 1. The Multi-Ethnic Peopling of Rus'. The Primary Chronicle on the Early Settlers of Rus' (ca. 600-860s). King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway (ca. 1050). Runic Inscriptions on Viking Stellae in Western Europe (Eleventh Century). The Ethnic History of Northeastern Rus' in the Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries / I.V. Dubov -- 2. The State Structure of Kievan Rus'. The Primary Chronicle on Dissension Among the Princes of Rus' (1012-54). The Primary Chronicle on the Rebellion in Kiev (1068-69). Pravda Russkaia: The Short Redaction (Eleventh Century). The City-State in Kievan Rus' (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) / I. IA. Froianov and A. IU. Dvornichenko. -- 3. The Economy in Kievan Rus'. Agriculture in Rus' (Tenth-Thirteenth Centuries) / V.P. Levasheva. Novgorod's Amber Trade (Tenth-Fourteenth Centuries) / E.A. Rybina. -- 4. Society in Rus'. The Statute of Grand Prince Iaroslav (Eleventh Century). Women in Medieval Novgorod from the Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century / N.L. Pushkareva and E. Levin. -- 5. Culture and Everyday Life in Kievan Rus'. The Christianization of Rus' According to the Primary Chronicle (978-88). The Life of St. Theodosius (Eleventh Century). Birchbark Charters from Novgorod (Twelfth Century). Graffiti from St. Sophia Cathedral, Kiev (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries). Literacy in Kievan Rus' / Simon Franklin -- II. The Post-Kievan Experience (ca. 1150-1497). -- 6. State-Building in Post-Kievan Rus'. Northwest Rus': The First Treaty of Novgorod with Tver' Grand Prince Iaroslav Iaroslavich (ca. 1264-65). Southwest Rus': Extracts from the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle (1240-41). Northeast Rus': The Second Testament of Moscow Grand Prince Dmitrii Donskoi (1389). The Annexation of Novgorod According to the Moscow Nikonian Chronicle (1471-78). The Novgorod Chronicle on the Mongol Invasion (1235-38). Mongol Immunity Charter (Iarlyk) to Metropolitan Peter (ca. 1313). Statebuilding in Moscow: The Birth of Autocracy / S.F. Platonov. Interpreting the Mongol Yoke: The Ideology of Silence / Charles Halperin. -- 7. Economy and Society in Post-Kievan Rus'. The Novgorod Judicial Charter (Late Fifteenth Century). A Muscovite Judgment Charter (ca. 1463). Justice in Medieval Russia / Ann M. Kleimola. The Decline of Novgorod's Fur Trade Network / Janet Martin. The Mongol Yoke and Socioeconomic Change / A.M. Sakharov. -- 8. Culture and Everyday Life in Post-Kievan Rus'. Evidence for Literacy: Novgorod Birchbark Charters (ca. 1220-30s). The Last Will and Testament of Patrikei Stroev (Late Fourteenth-Early Fifteenth Centuries). Minstrels in Rus': An Immunity Charter (1470). Russian Minstrels: A Modern View / Russell Zguta. The Mongols and Cultural Change / A.M. Sakharov. The Historical Significance of Andrei Rublev / Mikhail Alpatov -- III. The Muscovite Centralized State (1497-1689). -- 9. The State Structure of Muscovite Russia. A Foreigner Describes the Oprichnina of Tsar Ivan the Terrible (1565-70). The Facade of Autocracy / Nancy Shields Kollmann. Ivan IV: Reformer or Tyrant? / Robert O. Crummey. -- 10. The Economy of Muscovite Russia. The Economic Crisis in Sixteenth-Century Russia / E.I. Kolycheva. -- 11. Muscovite Society. Documents Recording Self-Sale into Slavery (1595-1603). Grigorii Kotoshikhin on Boyar Weddings (ca. 1666). A Marriage Contract (1668). Law and the Enserfment of the Russian Peasantry / Richard Hellie. The Boyars of Muscovy: A Modern View / Robert O. Crummey. The Seclusion of Elite Muscovite Women / Nancy Shields Kollman. -- 12. Muscovite Culture. The Life of Iuliania Osor'ina (Late Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Centuries). Individualism in Muscovite Literature / D.S. Likhachev. Literacy and Literacy Texts in Muscovy / Gary Marker. -- 13. Everyday Life in Muscovy. Letters to stolnik Andrei IIich Bezobrazov from his Wife (1687). Adam Olearius on Food and Dining (1630s). Sexuality in Muscovy / Eve Levin -- |
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IV. The Imperial Period: From Peter The Great through The Great Reforms (1689-1860s). -- 14. The State and Political Structure of Imperial Russia. The Table of Ranks of All Grades: Military, Administrative, and Court ... (1722). Manifesto Freeing the Nobility from Compulsory Service (1762). Russia's System of Ranks and Orders / Helju Bennett. The Soslovie (Estate) Paradigm and Russian Social History / Gregory Freeze. The Statute on Provincial Administration (1775). The Charter to the Nobility (1785). The Well-Ordered Police State / Marc Raeff. Catherine the Great, an Enlightened Autocrat / Isabel De Madariaga. The Statute Establishing State Ministries (1802). An Edict Defining the Responsibilities of the Ministries (1810). An Edict Creating the Third Section of His Majesty's Own Chancery (1826). The Genesis of an 'Enlightened' Bureaucracy, 1825-56 / W. Bruce Lincoln. The Russian Higher Civil Service on the Eve of the Great Reforms / Walter M. Pintner. -- 15. The Imperial Economy. Charts and Table on Economic Development. The Character of the Russian Economy / Arcadius Kahan. The Price Revolution of the Eighteenth Century / B.N. Mironov. Provisioning the Russian Army / Elise Kimmerling Wirtschafter. -- 16. Society: The Lower and Middling Estates of Imperial Russia. Landlords' Instructions on Estate Administration (Late Eighteenth Century). An Imperial Edict Forbidding Sunday Labor by Serfs (1797). Moskovskie vedomosti, Newspaper Advertisements Listing Serfs for Sale (1797). A Speech by Emperor Nicholas I on Serfdom (1842). A Report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Serf Disorders (1847). The Peasant Commune / Steven L. Hoch. Peasant Patterns of Resistance / Peter Kolchin. Ivan Pososhkov on Merchants and Artisans in the Early Eighteenth Century (1727). Fedor Karzhavin on the Moscow Plague Riots (1771). The Charter to the Towns (1785). The Merchants' View of the Social Order in Russia / Wallace Daniel. The Merchants' Way of Life / Alfred J. Rieber. The Responsibilities of the Parish Priest: The Spiritual Regulation of Peter the Great (1721). I.S. Belliustrin's Description of the Clergy in Rural Russia (1858). The Disintegrating Parish in Eighteenth-Century Russia / Gregory L. Freeze. Vyg, An Old Believer Community / Robert Crummey. -- 17. Everyday Life in Imperial Russia. The Noble Head of the Household: The Memoirs of Sergei Aksakov (Nineteenth Century). The Dowry of Avdot'ia Bogdanova, A Nobleman's Daughter (1787). A Large Family: The Peasant's Greatest Wealth / Peter Czap, Jr. The Russian Urban Family at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century / M.G. Rabinovich. The Home and School Life of a Young Nobleman / Marc Raeff. The Memoirs of Anna Evdokimovna Labzina, An Eighteenth-Century Noblewoman (1810). The Cavalry Maiden (1836) / Nadezhda Durova. Catherine the Great and the Problem of Female Rule / Brenda Meehan-Waters. -- 18. Culture. Selections from Fedor Emin's Moral Fables (1764). From the A.N. Afanas'ev Collection of Popular Legends (1859). Peasant Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / M.M. Gromyko. "The Rossiad," an Epic Poem (1779) / M.M. Kheraskov. Rebirth, Renewal, and Renovatio in Eighteenth-Century Russia / Stephen L. Baehr. The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness / Richard Wortman. "On the Book Trade and the Love for Reading in Russia" (1802) / Nikolai M. Karamzin. The Extraordinary Decade: Literary Memoirs (1840s) / P.V. Annenkov. The Literary World of Polite Society / William Mills Todd III. The Split between the Government and the Educated Public / Nicholas N. Riasanovsky. -- 19. The Great Reforms. The Political Debates (1856-61). The Reform Statutes (1861-66). The Government and the Great Reforms of the 1860s / Larissa Zakharova. The Emancipation and the Nobility / Terence Emmons. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Subject |
Russia -- History -- Sources.
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Russia -- Historiography.
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| Indexed Term |
Russia History |
| Added Author |
Kaiser, Daniel H., 1945-
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Marker, Gary, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0195078578 alkaline paper |
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0195078586 paperback alkaline paper |
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