The Cambridge History Of Russia

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Cover Page About the Book Title: THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF RUSSIA, Volume I - From Early Rus’ to 1689 ISBN 0521812275 Contents (with page links) part i EARLY RUS’ AND THE RISE OF MUSCOVY (c.900–1462) part ii THE EXPANSION, CONSOLIDATION AND CRISIS OF MUSCOVY (1462–1613) part iii RUSSIA UNDER THE FIRST ROMANOVS (1613–1689) Plates Maps (with page links) Figures (with page links) Genealogical tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Note on dates and transliteration Chronology List of abbreviations 1 Introduction The scope of the volume: what and where is pre-Petrine Russia? The organisation and structure of the volume Themes of pre-Petrine history The external environment and its impact Internal developments The present state of pre-Petrine Russia 2 Russia’s geographical environment Peasant environments Location and space Resources for subsistence and development Environmental risks and uncertainties Conclusion EARLY Rus’ and the rise of Muscovy (c.900–1462) 3 The origins of Rus’ (c.900–1015) The Rus’ Primary Chronicle’s quest for the origins of Rus’ The beginnings of political formations First signs of an organised power in the forest zone and of long-distance trading between the Muslim and Baltic worlds Signs of turbulence c.860–c. 871 Princes of Kiev and the ‘Byzantine connection’: challenge and response Sviatoslav: the last migration 972–c.978 Fragmentation Vladimir’s force, his legitimacy deficit and turning to the gods Vladimir-Basil, ‘new Constantine’ and patriarch 4 Kievan Rus’ (1015–1125) simon franklin Dynastic politics From Vladimir Sviatoslavich to Vladimir Monomakh (princes of Kiev underlined) Power and governance External relations Religion, culture, ideology 5 The Rus’ principalities (1125–1246) Introduction Vladimir Monomakh’s successors Iurii Dolgorukii The Mstislavichi Andrei Bogoliubskii Sviatoslav Vsevolodovich Riurik Rostislavich Vsevolod Big Nest and Vsevolod the Red Defeat at the River Kalka Mikhail Vsevolodovich Conclusion 6 North-eastern Russia and the Golden Horde (1246–1359) Demographic and economic dislocation Dynastic reorganisation and the Golden Horde Territorial reorientation The Church North-eastern Russia in the mid-fourteenth century 7 The emergence of Moscow (1359–1462) The Daniilovichi and the Golden Horde The Daniilovichi and the dynasty The Daniilovichi and the Church 8 Medieval Novgorod The origins of Novgorod The development of boyar power The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Conflict with Moscow Novgorod in the fifteenth century Epilogue The expansion, consolidation and crisis of Muscovy (1462–1613) 9 The growth of Muscovy (1462–1533) Muscovy in 1462 Ivan III and Vasilii III Domestic policies Foreign influences Foreign policies Muscovy in 1533 10 Ivan IV (1533–1584) Safeguarding the royal family Building the realm 11 Fedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov (1584–1605) The regency of Boris Godunov Tsar Boris 12 The peasantry Peasant farming and material culture Slavery and the beginnings of enserfment 13 Towns and commerce The urban network Urban society and administration Urban and regional commerce Long-distance and international trade Conclusion 14 The non-Christian peoples on the Muscovite frontiers The conquest in the north and north-east The conquest of Kazan’ and Astrakhan’ A foothold in the North Caucasus The conquest of Siberia The structure of the indigenous societies The terms of encounter Methods of conquest 15 The Orthodox Church Popular religiosity Heresy Iosifites and non-possessors Reform Church and state Time of Troubles 16 The law Russkaia pravda The Pskov Judicial Charter The Novgorod Judicial Charter Immunities The Muscovite Sudebniki 17 Political ideas and rituals Muscovy and the ideology of rulership Ritual and setting Contingent rituals Foreign diplomatic rituals Royal progresses Bride shows Surrender-by-the-head ritual Coronation ritual Cyclical rituals New Year’s ritual The Last Judgement ritual Fiery Furnace ritual Epiphany ritual Palm Sunday ritual Typological characteristics 18 The Time of Troubles (1603–1613) The First False Dmitrii The Bolotnikov revolt The Second False Dmitrii The national liberation campaign Conclusion Russia under the first Romanovs (1613–1689) 19 The central government and its institutions The tsar in his court Who won? A brief overview of seventeenth-century high politics The early Romanovs The chancelleries Other central institutions: the ‘boyar council’ and ‘Assembly of the Land’ Concluding remarks 20 Local government and administration The spread of town governor administration Enhanced control through improved record-keeping Local government in reconstruction and reform Efforts at bureaucratic rationalisation The political economy of corruption 21 Muscovy at war and peace Recovery and revanche, 1613–34 The Crimean khanate and the Don cossack host The Thirteen YearsWar, 1654–67 Conflict with the Ottomans and Crimean Tatars, 1667–89 Muscovy’s emergence as a great power 22 Non-Russian subjects The steppe Siberia The North Caucasus The Baltics and Ukraine The mid-Volga region Methods of conquest and colonisation 23 The economy, trade and serfdom Commerce and the merchantry The process of enserfment, 1613–49 The Ulozhenie of 1649 24 Law and society Judicial venues The practice of the law Codifications of the law 25 Urban developments The urban network Urban society and administration Urban commerce The symbolic and religious role of towns The physical form of towns Conclusion 26 Popular revolts The sequence of revolts The social composition of the rebels ‘Rebellions in the name of the tsar’ 27 The Orthodox Church and the schism The legacy of the past Patriarch Filaret The Church in the seventeenth century Pressure for reform Patriarch Nikon Resistance to Nikon’s reforms Old Belief and the official Church after 1666 The official Church after 1667 28 Cultural and intellectual life lindsey hughes Culture ‘in transition’ Culture after the Time of Troubles Architecture and sculpture The Armoury: icons, portraits, applied art Theatre and music Literary and intellectual life: publishing and printing Conclusion: secularisation revisited Bibliography Index (with page links) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q,R S T U V W Y Z The Plates