title: Smuta as a Factor of the Russian History
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko, Andrey Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:18:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T10:18:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Dvornichenko A. Yu. Smuta as a Factor of the Russian History. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 3, рp. 677–701.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.301
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14908
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author devises a theory of the “smuta” and examines the topic at the theoretic-historiographical
  level. The term “smuta”, its origin, meaning and the time of its emergence are examined
  in the article. The term in its most common sense came into being quite late enough — at
  the beginning of the 17th century. The causes, development and the events of the first Russian
  period of “smuta” (Time of Troubles) could be perceived as some sort of a model, or a matrix,
  which can be applied to two more watersheds in the Russian history: to “the Great Russian
  revolution” and to “Perestroika” which, in the author’s opinion, should be considered as the
  “smuta”. The word “revolution” borrowed from the West only obscures the essence of the historical
  process. There is no reason to classify the events of the 20th century as the “revolution”.
  This thesis does not require fundamental justification given the fact that there is close affinity
  between current situation and ‘prerevolutionary’ Russia. A substantial part of the article is
  dedicated to proving that there was no “revolution” at the beginning of the 20th century either.
  Instead, there was another “smuta”, while the Soviet period was a continuation of the pre-Soviet
  one. Before the 17th century there had been no such phenomenon as the “smuta” in Russia.
  On the one hand, the first “smuta” (Time of Troubles) heralded the emergence of the unique
  Russian state-serfdom order and eventual shaping of the autocratic state. On the other hand,
  the “Time of Troubles”, rather than the reign of Peter I, represents the dawn of the Russian
  “Modern time”. Since then the Russian history has manifested itself as the series of “smuta”
  which do not lead to a new social order. After each period of “smuta” the state-serfdom regime
  revives itself, getting stronger as a result of the “revolution” from above, somehow adapting to
  further existence… and thus survives until the next “smuta”. This the “cyclicity” of the Russian
  history. Obviously, all the topical concepts raised in the article (such as “smuta”, “revolution
  from the above”, “pre-smuta situation” and etc.) are in need of further examination.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the history of Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the historiography of Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the smuta
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Russian stateserfdom order
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolution from above
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Smuta as a Factor of the Russian History
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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