Россия XVI–XVIIвековв исследованиях российских историков новейшего времени (2000-2020). Часть 1
Date: 2021
Subject: Modern historiography
publications of sources
history of Russia
16th century
17th century
publications of sources
history of Russia
16th century
17th century
Abstract:
This article is devoted to the study of modern Russian historiographical explorations on the history of 16th- and 17th- century Russia. The authors reveal the main achievements of historiography of the last two decades (2000-2020), analyse the research topics and publications of historical documents on the history of the pre-Petrine period and changes in the methods and approaches of academics in the study of the problems of Russian history of the pre-Petrine period. In the historiography of the beginning of the 21st century, the trends that emerged in the study of Russian history in the second half of the 1980s-1990s (during perestroika and the first decade of the post-Soviet period) continued and were further developed. In recent historiography, the subject of historical research itself has significantly expanded. While in Soviet times the main focus of researchers of Russian history of the 16th and 17th centuries was the study of the position-dependent taxpaying population groups (peasants, slaves and townspeople) and class struggle, in modern historiography the focus has notably shifted to the study of political history, the history of the ruling boyar elites and the nobility and the spiritual culture and history of the Church. Study of the socio-economic history and the situation of the unprivileged strata of society has continued at a new level, making it possible to more fully and deeply reveal the relationship between the state, landowners and the tax-paying population. The state of modern historiography allows us to hope for a fruitful continuation of the study of the history of the Muscovite Tsardom of the 16th and 17th centuries.