THE MILITARY FACTOR OF MODERNIZATION OF PRE-PERTINE RUSSIA IN THE MODERN ANGLOPHONE HISTORIOGRAPHY
In anglophone historiography the modernization in prepetrine Muscovy is considered as the result of the military reforms and the external influences. The sources of such effects were located in the West as well as in the East. The “military revolution” has been recognized as an important aspect of the historical transformation of the state and society. It has identified the development of the fiscal-military state. Whereas the process of the new military technologies translation went out from Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Golden Horde passed out the autocratic political model “of the Service State” and the concept of the fiscal policy. In the estimates of foreign authors pre-Petrine military reforms were effective enough, but they have increased social and cultural gap between Europe and Russia.
Keywords: modernization theory, military revolution theory, pre-petrine Muscovy, modern historiography
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Issue: 3, 2012
Pages: 81 — 86
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