TAXONOMY OF IMPERIAL RUSSIAN HISTORY, 1649-1917

Before grappling with the following stiff-seeming structure,
consider the following general conclusions about taxonomies of historical experience

I. Consciousness, world views, mentalities,
    Weltanschauungen, thoughts & feelings about the world.

A. Psychology, ethics, mores; national character
B. Esthetics; art

                                                           | Golden Age | Silver Age


C. Religion; myth, spiritual/intellectual life

Modernization              Enlightenment                Secularization [Mironov,1:499-518]


D. Theologies, philosophies, ideologies, science, law
    (formal structures of thought about what’s real & right)

Old-Ritualism                        Skovoroda
       Statism (Protestant influence)
                               Enlightened monarchy
                                                         Uvarov's formula
                                                          Slavophile/Westernizer
        1649:Ulozhenie

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II. Institutions. Formal structures of governance,
    administration, and management
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Mironov,2:1-65

A. Churches, Academy of Sciences, universities, censors, schools, media
[cf. I. above]

1. Church & state
2. Public & elite education
3. Censorship
4. Priests and pundits (public intelligentsia)

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B. The state (central, sovereign authority):

1. Courts and "constitutions"
2. Embassies and military
3. Legislation & law enforcement
4. Tax; budgets, tributes, plunder, tithes
    [cf. IV below]
    a. taxation
    b. state property
    c. procurement (esp. military procurement)
    d. welfare
    e. finance, treasuries, banks [GO IV.B below]
    f. businesses, corporations [GO IV.B below]

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III. Social structure; classes [cf. Dozen Categories]
    Large, replicated, often hierarchical groups of people.
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Mironov,1:55-122 (family evolution from traditional to rational reproduction)
Mironov,1:123-196 (family, from complex to nuclear, from authoritarian to egalitarian)

A. Peasant village [Mironov,1:286-370]
B. Labor (bound labor, servile labor, wage labor, etc.)
C. Indigenous peoples and ethnic "minorities"
D. Women; gender issues
E. "Civil society" (e.g., "public", leisure, sports)

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IV. Economy. Production and distribution of things of value
    [cf. II.B.4 above].

A. Agriculture (villages, farms, latifundia estates)
B. Industrialization (mercantilism, laissez-faire,
    trans-national corporatism) [GO II.B.4.e above]
C. Urbanization, markets, trade [Mironov,1:425-80]
D. Material culture


E. geography... [On the relation of geography to III. Society (above) and IV. Economy]

Siberia (big LOOP)

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