Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781405134583
Year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 308


Description:
Russia?s Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad
interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of
serfdom?s codification until its abolition following the
Crimean War.


Considers the institution of serfdom, official social
categories, and Russia?s development as a country of peasants
ruled by nobles, military commanders, and civil servants

Illuminates the reality of absolute monarchy in Russia, with
special emphasis on the mobilization of human and material
resources, the search for regular government, and the persistence
of personal-moral forms of authority

Traces the emergence of modern Russian culture out of and
alongside Orthodox religious culture