Mikhail A Kiselev
Biographic Data
| ID | 6665551 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mikhail A Kiselev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mikhail A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kiselev |
| SIGNATURE | KISELEV M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ural Federal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3103-8074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Court Literature to the Public Sphere
The article analyses the phenomenon of Russian criticism of European colonialism in America in the second half of the 18th century, the beginning of which was laid by M. V. Lomonosov in his “Letter on the usefulness of glass” (1752) and then developed by A. P. Sumarokov. It is shown that originally the American theme emerged within the framework of court literature oriented to the monarch and courtiers. Criticism of the bloody conquest of America…
The Power of the Monarch, the Indivisibility of the State, and the Common Good in Russian Political Thought (Late 16th – Mid‐18th Centuries)
This article examines the ideas about the nature of state power and the relationship between the ruler and the state in Russia between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In the field of historiography, a thesis has been proposed regarding the patrimonial nature of the rulers’ power in the Muscovite Tsardom. This thesis posits that the realm was regarded as the ruler’s personal property. Russia’s position was distinct from that of Europe, whe…
Absolute Monarchy and Usefulness
This article examines The Justice of the Monarch's Will (1722) by Feofan Prokopovich (1681–1736) as a political work of a transitional period. It combines innovative reasoning about monarchy based on natural law with arguments about God-given authority based on references to the Bible and theological texts. This makes it a political work of great significance for understanding the evolution of Russian political culture in the early eighteenth cen…
The Concepts of Power and State in Russian Political Thinking
This article reviews a monograph by E. Sashalmi, a Hungarian Russianist, dedicated to the “transtemporal” reconstruction of the political thinking of Russian writers of the early modern period. The innovation of this book lies in the “contextual” and historical-comparative approaches. Comparing the political discourse of Muscovy with the Western Christian political thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the author does not find the c…
The Rise and Fall of the Term “Politichnyy” in 18th Century Russia
The article is devoted to the prehistory of the emergence in the Russian political language of such an important concept for the European culture of the Modern times as civilization. In view of the historiography, the article focuses on the adjective politichnyy. In the language of Muscovy in the 16th–17th centuries, the notion of barbarians was mainly used to mean “non-Christian peoples” for whom Christians were contrasted. In the second half of…
‘Luxury Beyond Morals’
Luxury has always been an intrinsic part of world history, but the words “luxe” or “luxury” in the conventional sense are quite new, entering the French and English languages only in the seventeenth century. It was only at the end of the seventeenth century that the core of this phenomenon came up for discussion in Europe against a backdrop of development of international trade and incipient economic growth. During these debates, the concept of l…
“Our Provincial Life Has Its Shady Sides…”
The publication in 1973 in “Uralsky Rabochiy” of an article by the Sverdlovsk historians F. P. Bystrykh (1902—1976) and V. Y. Krivonogov (1911—1977), in which they severely criticized the collection “Questions of the History of Capitalist Russia. Problems of Multiformity” (1972), was one of the important events connected with the defeat of the so-called “new direction” in Soviet historical science. Historiographers analysing the publication of By…
The Conflicts of Soviet Legal Historians Over Plagiarism in the Mid-1930s — Early 1940s
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Carl Schmitt in the USSR
The article is devoted to the problem of the perception in the USSR of C. Schmitt and his works. It is shown that the Russian Empire paid attention to and criticized Schmitt’s 1912 work Law and Judgment. Soviet readers in the 1920s–1940s were already acquainted with the content of Schmitt’s key works such as Political Romanticism, Dictatorship, The Historical and Spiritual State of Modern Parliamentarism, Political Theology, The Concept of Politi…
Montesquieu’s Treatise De L'Esprit des Lois and Fundamental Laws in Russia in the Early 1760s
Relying on the method of the history of concepts, this paper considers how Montesquieu’s treatise The Spirit of the Laws had come to be perceived in Russia by 1762, as well as the existence of the concept of “fundamental laws” in the Russian political lexicon. It is demonstrated that among the Russian ruling elite, The Spirit of the Laws had a number of followers, who, however, did not play a leading part in the domestic policy of Elizabethan Rus…
Is There a Place for Democracy from Russia
The authors analyse a book on the concept of democracy by A. V. Magun, a specialist in political philosophy. In this book, the author traces the history of democracy as a key concept of the European political tradition, paying special attention to paradoxes in the Western understanding of democracy. Magun stresses the tension between the stability of liberal democracy in the modern era and the revolutionary, ‘demonic’ potential of democracy. Acco…
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Is There a Place for Democracy from Russia
The authors analyse a book on the concept of democracy by A. V. Magun, a specialist in political philosophy. In this book, the author traces the history of democracy as a key concept of the European political tradition, paying special attention to paradoxes in the Western understanding of democracy. Magun stresses the tension between the stability of liberal democracy in the modern era and the revolutionary, ‘demonic’ potential of democracy. Acco…
Montesquieu’s Treatise De L'Esprit des Lois and Fundamental Laws in Russia in the Early 1760s
Relying on the method of the history of concepts, this paper considers how Montesquieu’s treatise The Spirit of the Laws had come to be perceived in Russia by 1762, as well as the existence of the concept of “fundamental laws” in the Russian political lexicon. It is demonstrated that among the Russian ruling elite, The Spirit of the Laws had a number of followers, who, however, did not play a leading part in the domestic policy of Elizabethan Rus…
The Conflicts of Soviet Legal Historians Over Plagiarism in the Mid-1930s — Early 1940s
(
Carl Schmitt in the USSR
The article is devoted to the problem of the perception in the USSR of C. Schmitt and his works. It is shown that the Russian Empire paid attention to and criticized Schmitt’s 1912 work Law and Judgment. Soviet readers in the 1920s–1940s were already acquainted with the content of Schmitt’s key works such as Political Romanticism, Dictatorship, The Historical and Spiritual State of Modern Parliamentarism, Political Theology, The Concept of Politi…
The Rise and Fall of the Term “Politichnyy” in 18th Century Russia
The article is devoted to the prehistory of the emergence in the Russian political language of such an important concept for the European culture of the Modern times as civilization. In view of the historiography, the article focuses on the adjective politichnyy. In the language of Muscovy in the 16th–17th centuries, the notion of barbarians was mainly used to mean “non-Christian peoples” for whom Christians were contrasted. In the second half of…
‘Luxury Beyond Morals’
Luxury has always been an intrinsic part of world history, but the words “luxe” or “luxury” in the conventional sense are quite new, entering the French and English languages only in the seventeenth century. It was only at the end of the seventeenth century that the core of this phenomenon came up for discussion in Europe against a backdrop of development of international trade and incipient economic growth. During these debates, the concept of l…
“Our Provincial Life Has Its Shady Sides…”
The publication in 1973 in “Uralsky Rabochiy” of an article by the Sverdlovsk historians F. P. Bystrykh (1902—1976) and V. Y. Krivonogov (1911—1977), in which they severely criticized the collection “Questions of the History of Capitalist Russia. Problems of Multiformity” (1972), was one of the important events connected with the defeat of the so-called “new direction” in Soviet historical science. Historiographers analysing the publication of By…
The Concepts of Power and State in Russian Political Thinking
This article reviews a monograph by E. Sashalmi, a Hungarian Russianist, dedicated to the “transtemporal” reconstruction of the political thinking of Russian writers of the early modern period. The innovation of this book lies in the “contextual” and historical-comparative approaches. Comparing the political discourse of Muscovy with the Western Christian political thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the author does not find the c…
Absolute Monarchy and Usefulness
This article examines The Justice of the Monarch's Will (1722) by Feofan Prokopovich (1681–1736) as a political work of a transitional period. It combines innovative reasoning about monarchy based on natural law with arguments about God-given authority based on references to the Bible and theological texts. This makes it a political work of great significance for understanding the evolution of Russian political culture in the early eighteenth cen…
From Court Literature to the Public Sphere
The article analyses the phenomenon of Russian criticism of European colonialism in America in the second half of the 18th century, the beginning of which was laid by M. V. Lomonosov in his “Letter on the usefulness of glass” (1752) and then developed by A. P. Sumarokov. It is shown that originally the American theme emerged within the framework of court literature oriented to the monarch and courtiers. Criticism of the bloody conquest of America…
The Power of the Monarch, the Indivisibility of the State, and the Common Good in Russian Political Thought (Late 16th – Mid‐18th Centuries)
This article examines the ideas about the nature of state power and the relationship between the ruler and the state in Russia between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In the field of historiography, a thesis has been proposed regarding the patrimonial nature of the rulers’ power in the Muscovite Tsardom. This thesis posits that the realm was regarded as the ruler’s personal property. Russia’s position was distinct from that of Europe, whe…
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