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Ivan the Terrible.
This is the first major re-assessment of Ivan the Terrible to be published in the West in the post-Soviet period. It breaks away from older stereotypes of the tsar - whether as 'crazed tyrant' and 'evil genius', on the one hand, or as a 'great and wise statesman', on th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Profiles In Power.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Ivan's Inheritance; 2 The Young Ruler; The minority of Ivan IV; Coronation, marriage and the fall of the Glinskiis; 3 The Conquest of Kazan' and Astrakhan'; 4 Reformers and Reforms; The reasons for reform; Adashev and Sil'vestr; The reforms of the 1550s; 5 From Consensus to Conflict; The 'boyar revolt' of 1553; The power of the Muscovite ruler; The beginning of the Livonian War and the dismissal of Adashev and Sil'vestr; On the eve of the oprichnina terror.
- 6 The Introduction of the OprichninaThe tsar's departure from Moscow; The decree on the oprichnina; 'A strange institution': problems of interpretation; 7 Repression and Resettlement; The first victims; Attempts to reach a compromise; The rout of the zemshchina opposition; The land resettlements; 8 The Culmination of the Terror; The devastation of Novgorod; The executions in Moscow; The abolition of the oprichnina; 9 After the Oprichnina; The 'grand princely rule' of Simeon Bekbulatovich; The end of the Livonian War; The last years of Ivan's reign.
- The consequences of the oprichnina and post-oprichnina regimesConclusion; Chronology; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index.