Ancient Novgorod civil society

• Main Author: Orlova, Lyubov Y.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: birchbark reading and writing; civil society; masterful; merchants; national home guard; Novgorod Republic of the 12th to 15th centuries; prince; trade; veche; veche democracy; Novgorod Republic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.47451/his2020-09-002

Ancient civilization, of which civil society is certainly an integral part, had a huge impact on the subsequent development of civil societies around the world. The romanization of “barbarian” peoples, which began in the heyday of the Roman Republic, absorbed many of the principles and organizational forms of Roman civil society. Western European civil society of the 17th and 18th centuries and our modern civil society as a reference turned to the ancient civil society. In article various approaches to understanding Ancient Novgorod civil society are considered, is analyzed democratic principles in activity of the Novgorod republic. Th author concludes that the Ancient Novgorod civil society not only enriched the world practice but also created an original type of civil society. One of the Russian idea’s representatives, G. Fedotov, who developed the theory of the Orthodox democratic state, believed that this had already happened once in Russian history, meaning “the creation of a unique Orthodox democracy in Novgorod”.