HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mestnichestvo, Votchina, Aristocracy
23 Feb 2017
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Discussed how and why moscow became new centre of political power in. Now will discuss why absolutism, not localism of kiev or (democracy) of. Discuss why russia did not evolve as many similar absolutism nations. By church, by middle class, as it happened in england and germanic states. Why did feudalism not place limits of power of absolutism perhaps there. Result of the process of political unification and administrative centralization was no real feudalism in a political sense: economic feudalism. Under the appanache system, there was a proliferation of city states. Often subdivided, to get more political entities. Each of these princes had within his city, sovereignty over police, military, economic, etc. Only vaguely loyal to the grand prince under the appanache system. Moscow achieved this through a variety of means. Some of the princes were permitted to stay on, collecting taxes, running the. Eventually moscow replaced these princes with military officers.
