Institutions, Economy, Society

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2026
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Abstract
This chapter examines Muscovy's institutions, economy, society, and gender relations by showing how autocratic ideology coexisted with boyar influence, consultative assemblies, legal codification, bureaucratic expansion, and local governance within a centralizing political order. It analyses agriculture, economic crisis, recovery after the Time of Troubles, foreign trade, industrial development, and the legal consolidation of serfdom, demonstrating how state policy bound peasants, townsmen, and servitors to state needs. The chapter explains social hierarchy through service gentry formation, mestnichestvo, and legal regulation of rank, honour, and mobility, which preserved political cohesion while limiting advancement by merit. It investigates merchants, artisans, and towns as regulated but vital instruments of fiscal and territorial consolidation. Finally, the chapter explores patriarchal norms, domestic discipline, elite women seclusion, and women's constrained authority, revealing how gender ideology structured Muscovite life.
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Authors Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0016
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0016
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