1st Edition
Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598–1725 Manipulation, Rebellion and Expansion into Siberia
1. The Cossack Group 2. The Economics of Siberian Service 3. Integration of the Trading Frontier: The Sovereign’s Affair 4. Kormlenie and Bribery – Local Influence and Administration 5. Local and Central Power in the Baikal Region 1689-1720
Biography
Christoph Witzenrath is Assistant Lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His research interests include medieval, early-modern European, Russian and Soviet history.
'Specialists who are interested in early modern institutions, the problem of autocracy, and Russian empire-building will find it well worth their time to wade through its welter of details and fascinating case studies.' - Brian J. Boeck, DePaul University, Russian Review, 2008
'This book is both carefully researched and convincingly argued. While locating his work in a broad spectrum of the secondary literature, Witzenrath helpfully summarizes current understandings of workings of Muscovite authority. His research then significantly extends our perception of the extra-institutional functioning of Russian society in the long seventeenth century. The focus on Russia’s Siberian colony is particularly important; the diverse arrangements which allowed the extension (and transformation) of Russian administrative and social functions into its regions and colonies have not received the attention they deserve.' - CAROL B. STEVENS Colgate University, American Historical Review, 2008
