Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy from Peter the Great to the Abdication of Nicholas IIPrinceton University Press, 2006年3月26日 - 491 頁 This new and abridged edition of Scenarios of Power is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917. The author breaks new ground by showing how imperial ceremony and imagery were not simply displays of the majesty of the sovereign and his entourage, but also instruments central to the exercise of absolute power in a multinational empire. In developing this interpretation, Wortman presents vivid descriptions of coronations, funerals, parades, trips through the realm, and historical celebrations and reveals how these ceremonies were constructed or reconstructed to fit the political and cultural narratives in the lives and reigns of successive tsars. He describes the upbringing of the heirs as well as their roles in these narratives and relates their experiences to the persistence of absolute monarchy in Russia long after its demise in Europe. |
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... elite institution with its own culture , expressed in a symbolic system that persisted over time and adapted to new demands and influences . Successive generations of heirs to the throne grew up within a world of ceremonial performance ...
... elite displayed their personal bond with the monarch and their preemi- nence before the subject population . Max Weber pointed out that elites per- form ceremonies to justify their collective domination to themselves , the performance ...
... elite during each reign . As a result , ceremonies assumed different meanings and greater or lesser impor- tance as demanded by the scenario . Beginning with Peter's reign , Russian emperors and empresses emulated Western monarchs ...
... elite demonstrated a form of consent that enhanced rather than limited the rulers ' power . After the Decembrist revolution of 1825 , the conception of popular sovereignty was sublimated in ceremonies of popular adulation of the Russian ...
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