TAXONOMY OF IMPERIAL RUSSIAN HISTORY, 1649-1917
Before grappling with the following stiff-seeming structure,
consider the following general conclusions about
taxonomies of historical experience
I. Consciousness, world
views, mentalities,
Weltanschauungen, thoughts & feelings about the world.
A. Psychology, ethics, mores; national character
B. Esthetics; art
| Golden Age | Silver Age
C. Religion; myth, spiritual/intellectual life
Modernization Enlightenment Secularization [Mironov,1:499-518]
D. Theologies, philosophies, ideologies, science, law
(formal structures of thought about whats real & right)
Old-Ritualism
Skovoroda
Statism (Protestant influence)
Enlightened monarchy
Uvarov's formula
Slavophile/Westernizer
1649:Ulozhenie
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II. Institutions. Formal
structures of governance,
administration, and management
A. Churches, Academy of Sciences, universities, censors, schools, media
[cf. I. above]
1. Church & state
2. Public & elite education
3. Censorship
4. Priests and pundits (public intelligentsia)
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B. The state (central, sovereign authority):
1. Courts and "constitutions"
2. Embassies and military
3. Legislation & law enforcement
4. Tax; budgets, tributes, plunder, tithes
[cf. IV below]
a. taxation
b. state property
c. procurement (esp. military procurement)
d. welfare
e. finance, treasuries, banks [GO IV.B below]
f. businesses, corporations [GO IV.B below]
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III. Social structure; classes
[cf. Dozen Categories]
Large, replicated, often hierarchical groups of people.
A. Peasant village [Mironov,1:286-370]
B. Labor (bound labor, servile labor, wage labor, etc.)
C. Indigenous peoples and ethnic "minorities"
D. Women; gender issues
E. "Civil society" (e.g., "public", leisure, sports)
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IV. Economy. Production and distribution of things of value
A. Agriculture (villages, farms, latifundia estates)
B. Industrialization (mercantilism, laissez-faire,
trans-national corporatism) [GO II.B.4.e above]
C. Urbanization, markets, trade [Mironov,1:425-80]
D. Material culture
E. geography... [On the relation of geography to III. Society (above) and IV. Economy]
Siberia (big LOOP)
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