Halperin, Charles. The Early Modern Muscovite state reconsidered - Studia Slavica Et Balcanica Petropolitana

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For citation: Halperin, Charles. The Early Modern Muscovite state reconsidered, in Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana. 2018. № 2. Pp. 181-196. DOI https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2018.210.

Title of the article	The Early Modern Muscovite state reconsidered
Authors	Halperin, Charles J. — PhD, Research Associate, Russian and East European, Indiana University, Bloomington, Unated states of America, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., OrcID 0000-0002-6667-0555
In the section	Recensiones / Reviews
Year	2018	Issue	2	Pages	181-196
Type of article	RAR	Index UDK; BBK	94 (47); 63.3(2)	Index DOI	https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2018.210
Abstract	Mikhail Krom’s new monograph «Rozhdenie gosudarstva. Moskovskaia Rus’ XV ‑– XVI vekov» reconceptualizes the problem of the origins and nature of the Muscovite state, whose existence almost no previous historian had questioned. He disputes the paradigm of Russian exceptionalism, arguing that by the middle of the sixteenth century Muscovy possessed a sufficient number of the qualifying characteristics of an early modern European state to be called an early modern European state. Although Muscovy differed from other early modern European states in the unlimited authority of the ruler and the servility of the elite, the European model still applies. Krom raises numerous conceptual and substantive questions about Muscovy within a rigorously comparative framework. Although Krom presents his book as a a popularization, it should be read by all specialists as well.
Keywords	Muscovy, state, bureaucracy, sovereignty, general welfare, Ivan IV
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