Ivan the Terrible

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Ivan’s Inheritance
2 The Young Ruler
	The minority of Ivan IV
	Coronation, marriage and the fall of the Glinskiis
3 The Conquest of Kazan’ and Astrakhan’
4 Reformers and Reforms
	The reasons for reform
	Adashev and Sil’vestr
	The reforms of the 1550s
5 From Consensus to Conflict
	The ‘boyar revolt’ of 1553
	The power of the Muscovite ruler
	The beginning of the Livonian War and the dismissal of Adashev and Sil’vestr
	On the eve of the oprichnina terror
6 The Introduction of the Oprichnina
	The tsar’s departure from Moscow
	The decree on the oprichnina
	'A strange institution’: problems of interpretation
7 Repression and Resettlement
	The first victims
	Attempts to reach a compromise
	The rout of the zemshchina opposition
	The land resettlements
8 The Culmination of the Terror
	The devastation of Novgorod
	The executions in Moscow
	The abolition of the oprichnina
9 After the Oprichnina
	The ‘grand princely rule’ of Simeon Bekbulatovich
	The end of the Livonian War
	The last years of Ivan’s reign
	The consequences of the oprichnina and post-oprichnina regimes
Conclusion
Chronology
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index