The origins of autocracy: Ivan the Terrible in Russian history

Aleksandr Ânov

University of California Press, 1981 - History - 339 pages

Traces the role of Ivan the Terrible in Russian history and the thinking of Russian historians, emphasizing the political actions and ideals of the sixteenth-century czar as they have shaped Russia's development through the present

Contents

• The Language in Which We Argue: 27
• The Grandfather and the Grandson: 123
• Josephites and NonAcquirers: 147
• The End of Russian Absolutism: 183
• PART III: 213
• A Strange Conflict: 225
• The First Attack of the Historiographic Nightmare: 230
• Hero of Virtue and Insatiable Bloodsucker: 233
• Pogodins Conjecture: 236
• Prolegomena to the Second Epoch: 239
• The Hypnosis of the Myth of the State 1 Absolute and Relative Uniqueness: 241
• A Symbol of Progress: 246
• The Historical Necessity of the Oprichnina: 251
• The Capitulation of Slavophilism: 255
• The Old and the New: 260
• The B ugbea r of O liga rchy: 267
• Kliuchevskiis Premise: 269
• An Impossible Combination?: 270
• Platonovs Argument With Kliuchevskii: 275
• The Argument With Platonov and Kliuchevskii: 278
• Again at the Crossroads 1 At the Boundary of the Ages: 280
• The Economic Apologia for the Oprichnina: 281
• Platonovs Contradiction: 283
• Pokrovskiis Paradox: 286
• The Political Meaning of Collectivization: 289
• The Militarist Apologia for the Oprichnina: 291
• A Medieval Vision: 299
• The Mutiny of Dubrovskii: 306
• The Sacred Formula: 310
• 7 ltorfe of the 1960s: 311
• Grounds for Optimism: 318
• APPENDIXES: 321
• Establishment Political Forces in the 1550s: 323
• The Cycles of Russian History: 324
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 325
• INDEX: 335

Bibliographic information

• Title: The origins of autocracy: Ivan the Terrible in Russian history; Armenian Research Center collection
• Author: Aleksandr Ânov
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1981
• ISBN: 0520042824, 9780520042827
• Length: 339 pages
• Subjects: History / General