دانلود کتاب Autocracy and Aristocracy: The Russian Service Elite of 1730

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Contents
Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Dates
Introduction
1 The Tsar’s Serving Men: Muscovite to Petrine
Reform and Change in Seventeenth-century Muscovy
The Nobility and Petrine Reform
2 Origins of the 1730 Service Elite
Russians
Foreigners
Petrine Policy and Elite Continuity
3 Rank, Office, and Power
Career Patterns
Social Origin and the Rank System
The Elite within the Elite: Profiles of Top Government Administrators
The Petrine Service System and the Professionalization of the Elite
Personalism and the Regularization of Power
4 Material Foundations
Official Sources of Wealth
Private Sources of Wealth
Distribution of Serf-ownership among the Generalitet
Debts and Obligations
Confiscations and the Circulation of Estates
Economic Stratification and Insecurity
5 Family and Society
Marriage, Kinship, and the Formation of an Imperial Aristocracy
Strains within the Family Bonds: Property and Inheritance
Strains within the Family Bonds: Divorce and Separation
The Social Relations of the Elite
6 Power and Politics
The Succession Crisis of 1730
Patterns of Elite Politics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index