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Ivan the Terrible : free to reward & free to punish /
Ivan the Terrible is infamous as a sadistic despot responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people, particularly during the years of the oprichnina, his state-within-a-state. Ivan was the first ruler in Russian history to use mass terror as a political instrument. However, Ivan's act...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Muscovy in the sixteenth century. Muscovy in 1533
- The young Ivan's world
- part II. Ivan's life from his accession to the oprichnina. Ivan's minority
- Ivan's coronation and first marriage
- Life at Ivan's court
- The dynastic crisis of 1553
- The prehistory of the oprichnina
- part III. Muscovy from Ivan's accession to the oprichnina. Domestic political reform
- Church reform and heresy
- Intellectual and cultural history
- The economy and economic management
- Early foreign policy
- part IV. Ivan and Muscovy during and after the oprichnina. The oprichnina and its aftermath, 1564-1584
- The problem of the oprichnina
- The oprichnina in action
- Ivan's ideology, the oprichnina, and Muscovite society
- Muscovy, 1572-1584
- Ivan, 1572-1584.