Boy, do I have a treat for my history loving friends! I am very excited to have the opportunity to be able to share a paper from a friend that I met online who also loves history. This is an amazing paper – well thought out and researched- and I feel honored to introduce him and his work to my readers! :)
I apologize that I do not have a good biography of the author yet, but I hope to soon and I will upload it when I can. I need to break up his post into several parts, but I will post a few pages a day so that there is continuity for those who are interested in reading it. Please also feel free to leave comments of feedback and I will make sure that he gets them! So with out further ado, here is the title and a short tidbit of what the paper will cover over the next week or so. So let's begin!
Did The Russian State Form in a Different Manner than Its Occidental Neighbors?
Can Russia be seen as following the same formative patterns as the new, bureaucratic (proto-) states rising in Western Europe? A discussion in historiography, world history, and the problems of long chains of causality, exemplified by a comparison of Russian and English political history during the reigns of Ivan IV and Henry VIII. (Late medieval/Northern Renaissance, period, 16th century.)
Introduction: Did the Russian state form in a different Manner than its Occidental Neighbors?
On the 'Curse' of the Orient.
The Myth of 'Oriental' Despotism».
On the 'Miracle' of Western Europe.
Why and how to compare the Rule of Henry VIII with the Rule of Ivan IV?
A Short Introduction to the Period of the Comparison. ('The Mafia-Society'.)
The Development after the Time of the Black Death.
The Circumstance of the Two Ruling Houses and their Nobility.
Give to God what is God's and to the Emperor what is the Emperor's.
'Some of us have talked...'
Their Great Heists.
Father of all Things.
A bloody Trail of Death and Destruction?
Conclusions.
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