Department of Russian History to the beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Detailed information

Department Head: Professor N.S.Borisov.

The main fields of research and specialization for students of the department are as follows:

• The Social and Economic Development of Russia (from Antiquity to the Late 18th Century)
  
  * The Evolution of Landownership
  * The History of Rural Settlements
  * Urban History
  * Social History (Peasantry, Nobility. Merchants, Clergy)
  * Early Capitalism in Russia
  * Quantitative Methods of Research in Social and Economic History
  
  

• The Social and Political Development of Russia
  
  * Political History of Pre-Mongol Russia
  * Political Struggle in the Period of the Formation of the Russian Centralized State
  * Absolutist Monarchy in Russia
  * Political Development in the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries
  * State and Society
  * State and Church
  * Russia's Turkic Population
  
  

• Historical and Cultural Processes in Russia
  
  * The Culture of Ancient Rus
  * Intellectual History of the Principality of Moscow
  * History of Russian Culture and Social Thought in the Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries
  * The Russian Orthodox Church
  * The Role of Islam in Russian History
  
  

• Historiography and Source Studies
  
  * Textology
  * Quantitative Methods of Studying Narrative Sources
  * Basic Problems of the Historiography of Feudalism in Russia
  * Central Asia and Turkic Nations in Russian Historiography