Political ideals of Russian thinkers of the XI – early XVII centuries

Natalia Zolotukhina; Tatiana Vlasova

doi:10.35750/2071-8284-2023-4-10-30

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POLITICAL IDEALS OF RUSSIAN THINKERS OF THE XI – EARLY XVII CENTURIES Political ideals of Russian thinkers of the XI – early XVII centuries

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Published in Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia · Volume 2023, Issue 4 · Pages 10–30 · Rubric: Theoretical and historical legal sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2023-4-10-30

Received: 16.06.2023 Accepted: 12.10.2023 Published: 27.12.2023 Language of publication: RUS

Authors

Natalia Zolotukhina

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Tatiana Vlasova

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Natalia Zolotukhina

Academic degree: doctor of jurisprudence sciences

Science rang: professor

Russian State University of Justice glavnyy nauchnyy sotrudnik · kafedra teorii prava, gosudarstva i sudebnoy vlasti · Russian Federation

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Tatiana Vlasova

Academic degree: candidate of jurisprudence sciences

Science rang: docent

The Russian State University of Justice docent kafedry · kafedra teorii prava, gosudarstva i sudebnoy vlasti · Russian Federation · Москва

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. Unfortunately, at present, scientists have not given an adequate assessment of the political ideals of Russian thinkers, writers, and publicists of the XV – early XVII centuries, many of them are directly discredited, as they are manipulated into the scheme of “the initial commitment to autocracy», perceived as synonymous with absolutism. Serious scientific disagreements concern not one, not two, or even not three medieval thinkers, but all of them, especially the late Middle Ages, represented by such famous names as Joseph Volotskiy, Filofey Pskovskiy, I. S. Peresvetov, A. M. Kurbsky, Zinoviy Otenskiy, anonymous authors of the Valaam Conversation, etc. This galaxy is completed at the turn of the Middle Ages and the first quarter of Modern Times by the sovereign clerk Ivan Timofeyev. Methods. The authors, based on a systematic, historical, and comparative analysis of the works of these thinkers, offered their own viewpoint on the political ideals formulated by them. Results. The result of the study is presented by the following conclusions: researchers’ understanding of the political ideal of medieval thinkers depends on the assessment of both their works themselves and the historical conditions in which they were created; the preservation of some outdated schemes, many of which originated in the pre-revolutionary period which were uncritically perceived in Soviet historiography and remain up to nowadays, prevents the achievement of unity in the definition of the forms of government which were forming in different historical epochs and the assessment of the accompanying political and legal doctrines; in historical and especially historical and legal studies, it is always necessary to apply historical, rather than modern terminology in the analysis of key concepts used by medieval thinkers in characterizing existing (for them) historical conditions and in their proposed projects of state-legal transformations.

KEYWORDS

form of government, power, limitation of power, class-representative monarchy, absolutism, autocracy

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Zolotukhina N. M., Vlasova T. V. Political ideals of Russian thinkers of the XI – early XVII centuries // Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. 2023. no. 4. pp. 10-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2023-4-10-30. (Date of access 09.10.2026).

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Natalia Zolotukhina, Vlasova T. V.. "Political ideals of Russian thinkers of the XI – early XVII centuries." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2023.4 (2023): 10-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2023-4-10-30.

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Zolotukhina N. M., Vlasova T. V. (2023). Political ideals of Russian thinkers of the XI – early XVII centuries. Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 2023(4), 10-30. https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2023-4-10-30

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Natalia Zolotukhina, Vlasova T. V.. "Political ideals of Russian thinkers of the XI – early XVII centuries." Vestnik of the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia 2023, no. 4 (2023): 10-30. https://doi.org/10.35750/2071-8284-2023-4-10-30.

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