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A Muscovite Republic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2021

Nancy Shields Kollmann*
Affiliation:
Stanford University, kollmann@stanford.edu

Abstract

A response to Oleg Khakhorin's stimulating application of Anthony Kadellis' “The Byzantine Republic” to Russian history, this article explores the fundamental features of Muscovite political culture.

Type
Critical Discussion Forum: Authority and Power in Russia
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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12. Girard and Agamben are applied here: Nancy S. Kollmann, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia (Cambridge, Eng., 2012), ch. 17.

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