| Titre | The nobility and Russian foreign policy, 1560-1811 | |
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| Auteur | Robert E. Jones | |
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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 | III |
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| Page | 159-169 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Robert E. Jones, The nobility and Russian foreign policy, 1560-1811.
A persistent theme in the writing of Russian history has been the "opposition" of the nobility, or at least of important groupings of nobles, to specific monarchs and their policies. For example, the "boyar opposition" to Ivan IV and Peter I and that of court aristocracy to Peter III and Paul ; the opposition of the "traditional aristocracy" to the policies of a particular monarch was focused less upon the ruler than on a so-called "favorite" such as Patriarch Nikon, G. Potemkin, or M. Speranskii. In all such cases the members of the opposition are scions of wealthy, powerful families accustomed to political power and influences but dissatisfied with some new policy (concerning domestic reform, serfdom, or class privilege) that threatened their interests. In this paper the author argues that the issue that most frequently provoked the opposition of the established elite was foreign policy. The state repeatedly conducted a foreign policy that conflicted with the perceived interests of the established elite, most commonly the initiation or continuation of an aggressive war. With the traditional elite opposed, those policies were then carried out by favorites whom the monarch used to by-pass the elite. In general the established elite opposed expansionist wars out of class interest, whereas monarchs conducted such wars for reasons of state. 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_2343 |
