| Titre | La noblesse et le discours politique sous le règne de Pierre le Grand | |
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| Auteur | Marc Raeff | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 34, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1993 Noblesse, État et société en Russie XVIe - début du XIXe siècle | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I |
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| Page | 33-45 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Marc Raeff, The nobility and the political discourse in the reign of Peter the Great.
The debate over the question of whether the reign of Peter the Great was innovative, nay revolutionary, or a more or less organic outcome of an evolution started under his father or earlier, has been raging since the nineteenth century. Like all questions dealing with far- reaching historical events or developments, the one concerning Peter's reign cannot be answered in a simple either/or way. The article tries to re-examine the meaning and nature of the terminology concerning the nobility - i.e. the elite service class of the Muscovite/Russian state - as well as the transformation undergone by the concept of sovereign and government, between 1649 and 1725. The author made use of Lotman 's notion of "semiosphere". He was led to the hypothesis that Peter's reign produced a set of ambiguities as to the specific nature of basic political institutions and social relationships. These ambiguities had the important effect of a shift in the valences that basic values - social, intellectual, moral - obtained in shaping the lives and outlook of the Russian elites. In due course these ambiguities acquired a dynamic force that helped shape the parameters of subsequent Russian political thought, ethical values, and cultural orientations. The very fluidity and ambivalences that defined the public role and cultural life of the noble elite under Peter initiated new institutional, as well as existential forms and habits. These had to be consciously acquired and developed under the impact of new demands made by the sovereign; demands resulting from the state's systematically adopting the presuppositions, values, and goals of a foreign semiotic sphere - that of contemporary Western and Central Europe. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1993_num_34_1_2332 |
