Reconsidering Centre-Ethnic Periphery Relations In The State Of Peter The Great

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This article aims to investigate the transformation of centre-ethnic periphery relations during Peter the Great reforms. The literature established two positions stating that the change of title by the Russian monarch in 1721 was firstly due to the change in Russia's international status, and secondly to the evolution of ideas about the source of the tsar's power. However, these explanations contradict the very concept of the empire as a complex state, where the centre and the provinces are indirectly linked. The latter provision involved governing the national fringes through local elites through special agreements affirming the rights and privileges of subjects. The pre-Petrine Russia implemented a differentiated approach to governing the population of the former states, and legally recognized the special rights and privileges of certain peoples. The state's fiscal demands on the population of Ufa Province increased 16-fold. The literature tends to interpret Peter the Great's taxation policy in terms of Cameralism. Nevertheless, Peter the Great's fiscal policy towards the Bashkirs contradicted the foundations of this rationalist doctrine, both by design and practical implementation. The change of the titular in 1721 symbolized a new conception of the state for all subject peoples, which abolished all the rights and privileges granted by the Russian monarchs to individual nations. Thus, Peter the Great's new policy towards the ethnic fringes was essentially a rejection of imperial methods of governing the state.

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29 November 2021

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978-1-80296-116-4

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European Publisher

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117

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Cultural development, technological development, socio-political transformations, globalization

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Azanbaev, B. A., & Leisyan, A. I. (2021). Reconsidering Centre-Ethnic Periphery Relations In The State Of Peter The Great. In D. K. Bataev, S. A. Gapurov, A. D. Osmaev, V. K. Akaev, L. M. Idigova, M. R. Ovhadov, A. R. Salgiriev, & M. M. Betilmerzaeva (Eds.), Social and Cultural Transformations in The Context of Modern Globalism, vol 117. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 1845-1851). European Publisher. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.11.243