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The Third Rome and Russian Republicanism: A Comment on Oleg Kharkhordin “Power and Authority in Russia”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 December 2021
Abstract
This article brings to bear contemporary discussions on Machiavelli and republicanism on Kharkhordin's discussion of Russian republicanism and autocracy and its reception of models from Venice and Byzantium.
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- Critical Discussion Forum: Authority and Power in Russia
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- Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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