Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1969, 440 p. The print run is 2700. Price 2 rubles 6 kopecks. The monograph of V. I. Buganov, senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, "Moscow Uprisings of the late 17th century" is the result of a long study of the author of the history of Moscow uprisings of the second half of the 17th century .1 Determining its scientific significance, we should take into account the presence in our historiography of deep discrepancies in the characterization of the uprisings of 1682 and 1698. A number of researchers assess them as reactionary revolts directed against overdue progressive transformations. This point of view is expressed, in particular, in "Essays on the History of the USSR", as well as in educational and reference literature 2 . V. I. Buganov believes that these uprisings were popular, anti-feudal movements in their social essence, "in which positive and negative features characteristic of all movements of Russia during the feudalism period are intertwined in an intricate tangle" (p. 421). In our opinion, the author comes to such a correct conclusion as a result of a thorough review of the arguments of supporters of a different assessment of the movement and an analysis of all the sources known to him (some of them were identified and put into scientific circulation by him). Historians who considered the uprisings of 1682 and 1689 as reactionary riots, although they recognize the proximity of the Streltsy in terms of occupation and property status to the townspeople, do not consider them, however, part of the people. These historians saw the growing claims of the Streltsy as one of the main reasons for the uprising of 1682, and the abuse of superiors (first of all, the Streltsy colonels), the social nature of which they did not take into account, was considered only a reason for the performance 3. V. I. Buganov, considering the situation of service people "according to the dev ... Read more