City-states in medieval Russia and the Great Russian state system

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St Petersburg State University

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The article provides an insight into the author’s view on the rise and development of the state institutions in Rus-Great Russia. According to the author, extant sources and historiographic heritage make it possible to draw a conclusion regarding the zemskoe (communal) origin of the medieval Russian state system. Thus, the united Russian state emerged as a communal-autocratic state. Without idealizing relations between the grand prince, the nobility, the bureaucracy and the communal institutions, we must acknowledge that there was a certain balance and in some cases — prevalence of the traditional communal way of life. For the first time in the history of Russian civilization the turn of the 16th century witnessed the rise of a united Russian state, which embodied principles of autocracy and a communal way of life, namely a state, which was both communal and autocratic in its form and nature. Refs 53.

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Krivosheev Yu. V. City-states in medieval Russia and the Great Russian state system. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2016, issue 4, pp. 18–30.

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