Alexandrov, Pokrovskii. Power and Society: Siberia in the Seventeenth Century (Vlast' i obshchestvo: Sibir' v XVII v.). 1991. In Russian.

Александров, Вадим Александрович; Покровский, Николай Николаевич. Власть и общество. Сибирь в XVII в. / В. А. Александров, Н. Н. Покровский ; Академия наук СССР, Институт этнологии и антропологии имени Н. Н. Миклухо-Маклая ; Сибирское отделение, Институт истории, филологии и философии.
Новосибирск : Наука, Сибирское отделение, 1991. 399, [2] с. ; 21 см.
Твёрдый переплёт. Тираж 950 экз. ISBN 5-02-029748-8.
Состояние очень хорошее: переплёт чистый; блок крепкий, полный.
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Alexandrov, Vadim Alexandrovich; Pokrovskii, Nikolai Nikolaevich. Vlast' i obshchestvo: Sibir' v XVII v. [Power and Society: Siberia in the Seventeenth Century] / V. A. Alexandrov, N. N. Pokrovskii ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after N. N. Mikluho-Maklai ; Siberian Branch, Institute of History, Philology and Philosophy.
Novosibirsk : Nauka, Siberian Branch, 1991. 399, [2] pp. ; 21 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of 950 copies. ISBN 5-02-029748-8.
Condition very good: binding clean; text block tight and complete throughout.

A foundational and prize-winning monograph in the historiography of Russian Siberia, examining the emergence and functioning of democratic zemstvo organizations among the settler population during the seventeenth century. The study analyzes peasant commune organs, service communities of streltsy and cossacks, yamshchik (postal courier) communities, and military bodies in their complex interaction with the voevoda (military governor) administrative apparatus, arguing that these "miry" - communal assemblies - constituted an integral element of the estate-representative mechanism of early modern Russian governance, substantially reinterpreting the nature of Russian political culture and social organization in the Siberian colonial context. Vadim Alexandrovich Alexandrov was a leading Soviet historian at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, whose earlier studies of the Russian peasant commune and the Russian population of seventeenth-century Siberia established the documentary and conceptual framework for the present work. His co-author Nikolai Nikolaevich Pokrovskii (1930-2013) was an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the most distinguished Russian historians of the later twentieth century: a specialist in Russian history of the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, in the archival and documentary heritage of Siberia, and above all in the Old Believer communities of the Urals and Western Siberia. The two authors were jointly awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1992 - the highest scholarly recognition in post-Soviet Russia - for this monograph, confirming its standing as one of the essential works of Siberian historiography. Issued in Novosibirsk by the Siberian Branch of Nauka in the final year of the Soviet Union, the volume was signed for press in August 1991 - weeks after the events that ended Soviet power. The print run of only 950 copies is extraordinarily small even by late Soviet standards and renders the book genuinely scarce in clean copies outside Russia.