The Time of Troubles

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2026
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Abstract
This chapter examines the Time of Troubles in Russia by tracing the dynastic crisis, unrest, foreign intervention, and transformation that followed Ivan IV's death and culminated in Michael Romanov's election in 1613. It explains how the expansion of autocracy, the consolidation of serfdom, peasant flight, Cossack militancy, and hardship destabilized society and intensified conflict among the elites. The chapter analyses Boris Godunov's regency and reign, the famine of 1601–03, and the rise of the False Dmitry, whose claims attracted boyars, Cossacks, foreign powers, and discontented groups. It also describes the Bolotnikov revolt, Polish and Swedish intervention, and the mobilization that Patriarch Hermogen, Kuzma Minin, and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky organized. Finally, the chapter evaluates how the crisis strengthened autocracy, reinforced serfdom, expanded state authority, and fostered a sense of national identity.
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Authors Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0014
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0014
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