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"Tsarism" as a book category covers works—fiction and nonfiction—that focus on the autocratic rule of the tsars and the social, political, cultural, and economic world of Imperial Russia. It includes political and intellectual histories of the tsardom and the Russian Empire, biographies of rulers and courtiers, studies of serfdom, bureaucracy, the Orthodox Church, reform and repression, and military and expansionist policies, as well as historical novels, memoirs, and literary portrayals that evoke court life, aristocratic privilege, peasant hardship, and revolutionary ferment. Common themes are absolute power, legitimacy and ritual, tradition versus modernization, social hierarchy and repression, cultural flourishing and decay, and the causes and consequences of the 1917 revolutions. The category also embraces related subgenres—military history, art and architecture, folklore, émigré writing, and alternative histories—that explore how tsarist institutions shaped Russian identity and its legacy in the modern world.

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