Ivan the Terrible

Titel: Ivan the Terrible / Andrei Pavlov and Maureen Perrie
Verfasser: ;
Ausgabe: 1. ed.
Veröffentlicht: London : Longman, 2003
Umfang: IX, 234 Seiten : Diagramme, Karten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Profiles in power
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ISBN: 058209948X
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  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1
  • Ivan's inheritance
  • 2
  • The young ruler
  • The minority of Ivan IV
  • Coronation, marriage and the fall of the Glinskiis
  • 3
  • The conquest of Kazan' and Astrakhan'
  • 4
  • Reformers and reforms
  • The reasons for reform
  • Adashev and Sil'vestr
  • The reforms of the 1550s5. From consensus to conflict
  • The 'boyar revolt' of 1553
  • The power of the Muscovite ruler
  • The beginning of the Livonian War and the dismissal of Adashev and Sil'vestr
  • On the eve of the oprichnina terror
  • 6
  • The introduction of the oprichnina
  • The tsar's departure from Moscow
  • The decree on the oprichnina
  • 'A strange institution': problems of interpretation
  • 7
  • Repression and resettlement
  • The first victims
  • Attempts to reach a compromise
  • The rout of the zemshchina opposition
  • The land resettlements
  • 8
  • The culmination of the terror
  • The devastation of Novgorod
  • The executions in Moscow
  • The abolition of the oprichnina
  • 9
  • After the oprichnina
  • The 'grand princely rule' of Simeon Bekbulatovich
  • The end of the Livonian War
  • The last years of Ivan's reign
  • The consequences of the oprichnina and post-oprichnina regimes
  • Conclusion
  • Chronology
  • Glossary
  • Select bibliography