The Ottoman Empire: State Governance, Social and Ethno-Religious Issues (Osmanskaya imperiya: sistema gosudarstvennogo upravleniya, sotsial'nye i etnoreligioznye problemy). 1986. In Russian.

Османская империя: система государственного управления, социальные и этнорелигиозные проблемы. Сборник статей / предисловие С.Ф. Орешковой ; Академия наук СССР, Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, Институт востоковедения.
Москва : Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1986. 256 с. Обычный формат.
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The Ottoman Empire: State Governance, Social and Ethno-Religious Issues. Collected articles / preface by S. F. Oreshkova ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Institute of Oriental Studies.
Moscow : Nauka, Glavnaya Redaktsiya Vostochnoy Literatury (Main Editorial Board for Oriental Literature), 1986. 256 pp. Standard format.
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A Soviet-era multi-author collected volume addressing the political, social, and ethno-religious structures of the Ottoman Empire, published by Nauka's Main Editorial Board for Oriental Literature - the principal Soviet academic outlet for Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies. The volume gathers thirteen articles by leading Soviet and allied-country Ottomanists, presenting a broad cross-section of late Soviet scholarship on Ottoman history. The contributions range from S. F. Oreshkova's survey of Ottoman state power and social structure, to A. M. Shameutdinov's study of Ottoman development in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries using Turkish sources, to I. Ye. Petrosyan's analysis of janissary garrisons in the provinces during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to M. S. Meyer's examination of socio-political evolution in the late Ottoman period. Of particular relevance to Caucasian studies are two contributions: N. N. Shengeliya (Tbilisi) on the fiscal administration of the Ottoman Empire and its financial documents, and M. Kh. Svanidze (Tbilisi) on Turkish-Iranian relations between 1613 and 1619 and their impact on Georgia. The volume also draws on Bulgarian historiography, with articles by M. Stainova and A. Zhelyazkova (Sofia) on Islam and its dissemination in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, and by Ye. Grozdanova (Sofia) on Bulgarian historiography of the Ottoman period. The English-language table of contents reflects the volume's orientation toward an international readership. A solid reference item for researchers in Ottoman and Caucasian history, Balkan studies, and the history of Islam in the Near East.