Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Crisis at the End of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 2 The Time of Troubles; Chapter 3 The Causes of Civil Disorder; Chapter 4 Political Reconstruction; Chapter 5 Muscovy, Eastern Europe and the Ukraine; Chapter 6 The Cossacks; Chapter 7 Law and Society; Chapter 8 Local Government and the Class Structure; Chapter 9 The Coming of Serfdom; Chapter 10 The Zemsky Sobor; Chapter 11 Finances; Chapter 12 Social Critics; Chapter 13 Russia and the West; Chapter 14 The Cultural Pattern; Chapter 15 The Church Schism; Chapter 16 Tsar Alexei; Chapter 17 A Muscovite Statesman: Ordin-Nashchokin; Chapter 18 V. V. Golitsyn and Plans for Reform;

About the Author

Vasili O. Kliuchevsky (1841–1911) was the most eminent Russian historian of his day—a pathbreaking scholar, a spellbinding lecturer, an engaging stylist, and a great synthesizer whose works have stood the test of time. The Seventeenth Century is the third volume of Kliuchevsky’s five-volume masterpiece, A Course in Russian History, originally published in 1907. This unabridged translation is based on Volume 3 of the 1957 Soviet edition of Kliuchevsky’s collected works.,
Alfred J. Rieber, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, is a prolific author on Russian history and a recipient of the E. Henry Harbison Award of the Danforth Foundation for distinguished teaching.