Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T00:48:43.655Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

A Muscovite Republic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2021

Nancy Shields Kollmann*
Affiliation:
Stanford University, [email protected]

Abstract

A response to Oleg Khakhorin's stimulating application of Anthony Kadellis' “The Byzantine Republic” to Russian history, this article explores the fundamental features of Muscovite political culture.

Type
Critical Discussion Forum: Authority and Power in Russia
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. Kaldellis, Anthony, The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Cambridge, Mass., 2015), 76CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Kaldellis, Byzantine Republic, 117.

3. Keenan, Edward L., “Muscovite Political Folkways,” Russian Review 45, no. 2 (April 1986): 115–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4. Kollmann, Nancy S., By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (Ithaca, NY, 1999), Ch. 5Google Scholar.

5. Valerie Kivelson, “Muscovite ‘Citizenship’: Rights without Freedom,” Journal of Modern History 74, no. 3 (September 2002): 465–89.

6. Rossiisskoe zakonodatel΄stvo X-XX vekov, 9 vols. Chistiakov, O. I., ed. Moscow, 1984–94, Ulozhenie chap. 10, art. 1 in III: 102.

7. Russell Martin, A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia (DeKalb, Ill., 2012).

8. Paul Bushkovitch, Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450–1725 (Cambridge, Eng., 2021), Chap. 4; and Valerie Kivelson, “The Devil Stole his Mind: The Tsar and the 1648 Moscow Uprising,” American Historical Review 98, no. 3 (June 1993): 733–56.

9. Daniel Rowland, “The Problem of Advice in Muscovite Tales about the Time of Troubles,” Russian History 6, no. 1 (January 1979): 259–83.

10. Bushkovitch, Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia; and Russell E. Martin, “Anticipatory Association of the Heir in Early Modern Russia: Primogeniture and Succession in Russia’s Ruling Dynasties,” in Elena Woodacre, Lucinda H.S. Dean, Chris Jones, Russell E. Martin, and Zita Eva Rohr, eds., The Routledge History of Monarchy: New Perspectives on Rulers and Rulership (London, 2019), 420–42.

11. Kivelson, “Muscovite ‘Citizenship,’” 474.

12. Girard and Agamben are applied here: Nancy S. Kollmann, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (Cambridge, Eng., 2012), ch. 17.

13. Kollmann, Crime and Punishment, 311–21.

14. Rowland, Daniel, “Muscovy,” in Lloyd, Howell A., Burgess, Glenn, and Hodson, Simon, eds., European Political Thought 1450–1700: Religion, Law and Philosophy (New Haven, 2007), 267–99Google Scholar.