Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspective, 1462-1725 : : Assessing the Significance of Peter’s Reign / / Endre Sashalmi.
The book highlights the main features and trends of Russian “political” thought in an era when sovereignty, state, and politics, as understood in Western Christendom, were non-existent in Russia, or were only beginning to be articulated. It concentrates on enigmatic authors and sources that shaped o...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Russian Thought in Context
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Explanation of Aims, Genre, and Terminology
- Part One: Russia and Europe: Clarification of Terms and the Problem of the State
- 1. Issues of Methodology, Reception, and the Benefits of a Long-Term Approach
- 2. Territoriality, the Name, and the Nature of the Polity: From the Principality of Moscow to the Russian Empire
- 3. The Idea of the State in Western Christendom in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era
- 4. The Role of Metaphors and Allegorical Personifications in the Development of the Concept of the State in Western Christendom
- 5. The Meaning(s) of the European Perspective
- 6. The Birth and Meaning of the “Russian State Narrative”
- 7. The Consequences of the State Narrative: The Discovery of Gosudarstvo by Russian History-Writing
- 8. Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Muscovite Perceptions of Ruling Power: Characteristics and Methodological Aspects of a Comparison with Western Christendom
- 9. The Problem of Samoderzhavie
- Part Two: Notions of Power and State in the Context of “Proprietary Dynasticism”: Russia and the Western Perspective
- 10. Richard Pipes’s Patrimonial Interpretation of Russia Reconsidered in the Light of “Proprietary Dynasticism”
- 11. Aspects of Rulership and Their Relation to Each Other in Early Modern Europe and Russia: Proprietary, Office, and Divine Right
- 12. Divine Right of Kings and Divine Right of Tsars: Aspects and Lessons of a Comparison
- Part Three: The Origins of Theory of Law and State in the Works of Feofan Prokopovich: An Intellectual from the Kievan Nest in the Service of Peter the Great
- 13. Turning Points in the Life of Feofan Prokopovich, and His Most Important Political Works
- 14. Preliminary Notes on Prokopovich’s Theory of Law and State
- 15. Power, State, Law, Sovereignty, and Contractualism in Feofan Prokopovich’s Writings
- 16. Female Allegorical Personification of Russia during the Reign of Peter the Great and His Successors: Visual and Written Sources, and the Notion of State
- Epilogue: The Importance of Gosudarstvennost′ in Contemporary Russia
- Bibliography
- Index