The "Service Organization" and Its Role in the Development of Feudal Society Among the Eastern and Western Slavs
Б.Н. Флоря
The nature of the social structure Old Rus' in eleventh and twelfth centuries is currently subject heated debate our historical literature. Viewpoints range from statements that society Kievan did not differ fundamentally any way early feudal societies Western Europe to arguments Russian was then basically pre-class pre-state stage development. This complicated situation today's Soviet historiography unquestionably arose because difficulty source study: throughout Eastern we have no significant group documents regarding even thirteenth first half fourteenth centuries, let alone centuries.
Russian Studies in History