title: The Varangian Issue through the Prism of the Social Contract Concept
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metadata.value: Vtorushin, Mikhail I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T21:52:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T21:52:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Vtorushin M. I. The Varangian Issue through the Prism of the Social Contract Concept. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 1, рp. 159–175. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.109 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41685
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metadata.value: The article is devoted to an under-researched topic of the impactth at the theory of the social
  contract of European thinkers of the 17th–18th had on the discussion in the 18th-century Russia
  on the “Varangian-Russian issue”, the conditions and basis for the East Slavs’ state-building
  in the initial period. It gives a proper analysis of socio-political and economic factors for
  accepting the doctrine of G. Grotious, T. Gobbs, J. Locke, B. Spinoza, and Ch. Montesquieu
  by Russian nobility. The doctrine described the treaty-based relations between the State of
  Russia and its sovereigns. The article studies the influence of the Social Contract theory on
  the Tsarism’s domestic policy in the second half of the 18th century. This policy was upheld
  in the form of the Enlightened absolutism which served to balance the interests of the upper
  classes of the Russian Empire. By examining the views on the “Varangian issue” of members
  of the Russian Academy of Science, such as G. Bayer, G. Miller, and M. Lomonosov, the article
  explores the effect of the treaty-based concept of the state on the views on the genesis of the
  Russian statehood and the rejection of the theological doctrine of the sovereignty in the country.
  Historians G. Bayer and G. Miller accepted the conclusions of the European thought on
  the origin of state-building in some European nations as a result of an external conquest or an
  agreement for managing. Using the chronicle about the invitation of a Varangian Rurik, they
  revealed a similar process in Russia. A different viewpoint was expressed by M. Lomonosov.
  He considered the Slavs’ statehood and the conclusion of the management agreement to be the
  result of their internal development.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Norman theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: normanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: anti-normanism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Varangian-Russian issue
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: age of Enlightenment
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the social contract theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Varangian Issue through the Prism of the Social Contract Concept
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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