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A key characteristic of societies of the early Middle Ages was the vague division between the private property of the leader (the “royal domain”) and the property of other lords and the nation’s assets. The situation was similar in post-Soviet Russia, where the personal wealth of the president and his control over the nation’s assets had a tremendous impact on the country’s social and political landscapes. The concept of the royal domain is far less relevant to democratic or totalitarian societies.
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© 2007 Vladimir Shlapentokh
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Shlapentokh, V. (2007). The Royal Domain. In: Contemporary Russia as a Feudal Society. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609693_7
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