An Imperial Rights Regime: Law and Citizenship in the Russian Empire

The State and the Church in Russia in the Early New Age: Custom and Law

“…The most important position of this doctrine was the principle of "symphony", the cooperation of two authorities, secular and spiritual, and the spiritual power within the framework of this idea was considered as equal to the secular power, moreover, it was even higher than the latter, because spirit dominates inert matter and it is the church that gives meaning to the existence of the state. Burbank, J. (2006) It is curious, but it seems that the Russian scribes learned the following principle, on which the Byzantine tradition was built in a certain sense: "It is foolish to give up your good and disclose to other peoples the knowledge of being, whom we are proud of and for which we honor the Romaian race".…”

“…Oriented to the reproduction of the tradition in which it felt quite comfortable, society did not intend to part with the "old" so easily, especially if we take into account that after the brutal crisis of the 2nd half of XIV -1st half of XV centuries the living conditions have changed for the better in general with the economic and demographic upturn. Burbank, J. (2006) Pursuing their goals, the authorities could not ignore these sentiments in society.…”

“…This was due to the fact that during the "long XVI century" (however, long after it), they did not have a significant administrative resource that would allow them, if not ignore at all, then, in any case, not to listen carefully to Vox populi (by which, of course, it is necessary to understand, in relation to this era, first of all, the voice of the "political people", the elite of society, which had the corresponding influence and power in order to make the authorities listen to themselves). Burbank, J. (2006) The church (of course, first of all, it's top, the "princes of the church"), a completely traditional and conservative institution, was not at all in favor of rapid and radical transformations that threatened it with the loss of its privileged status won in the Middle Ages.…”

Prisoner (once again) of the Caucasus: An ethnography of film

“…Grant and Yalçin-Heckman (2007) argued that the imperial agendas (Russian, Ottoman, Persian among others) treated the region as an 'absent presence'. (Burbank 2006). As a result, land (territory), religion and language (culture) became almost intrinsic to the imperial and later Soviet ethnicities.…”

Repression of Kazakh Intellectuals as a Sign of Weakness of Russian Imperial Rule

“…On one hand, there still remained ample scope for administrative discretion. As Jane Burbank puts it, the "manipulation of rights was a foundation of Russian administrative practice and a characteristic behavior of even humble bureaucrats," 40 and satisfaction or rejection of petitions (a major tool in Russia for the rulers to learn the needs of the people and for the ruled to address grievances 41 ) much depended on individual officials, so Troinitskii could strongly affect the fates of the inhabitants of the oblast. On the other hand, final decisions on more or less important matters needed approval of higher officials (in this case, the governor-general) and the central office of the ministry.…”