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Ivan the Terrible : Free to Reward and 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 ac...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Collection: | Series in Russian and East European studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.