Book #54848

Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy

Richard Hellie

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Publisher: Chicago And London: The University of Chicago Press, 1971.
ISBN: 0226326454

Price: $40.00

A Fine edition in a like dust-jacket.

As the Russian state began to encroach on the autonomy of its peasantry in the sixteenth century, a new form of serfdom emerged: military servitude. In this book, Hellie argues that the rise of the Muscovite state was inextricably linked to the creation of a centralized, militarized order that relied on the mobilization of peasantry in service of the state. The book will be of interest to historians of Russian history, military historians, and Russian and Eurasian historians.; 8vo; 432 pages.