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4 juillet 2018
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- isbn: 9781783743735
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Elena Korchmina, « 9. What Could the Empress Know About Her Money? Russian Poll Tax Revenues in the Eighteenth Century », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.kabei4
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Given the inadequate size and training of Russia’s provincial bureaucracy, one might ask how it managed to govern so many people and so much territory. The simple answer is that for the most part it could not and did not govern them. Governments have always faced the need to get sufficient operational information about current affairs at all social and political levels. As John P. Le Donne has articulated, “Without adequate revenue, properly accounted for, a government’s freedom of action is ...