Minsk. Nauka i Tekhnika Publishing House. 1975. 248 p. Circulation 2300. Price 1 rub. 47 kopecks. The history of the cities of our country in the era of feudalism is devoted to many studies written both in pre-revolutionary and Soviet times. But, despite this, a number of problems of their development remain insufficiently covered. This applies primarily to the cities of those territories that were once part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in particular, the cities of Belarus). Many historians of the noble-bourgeois camp were interested in the feudal cities of Belarus (V. B. Antonovich, M. F. Vladimirsky-Budanov, A. F. Voronin, A. S. Grushevsky, etc.). Some of them, adhering to the theory of the decline of cities, associated it with the replacement of the Veche system by Magdeburg law, the enslavement of citizens by feudal lords, the offensive of Catholicism on Orthodoxy; others they paid attention only to issues of religious struggle. Soviet historians based on the analysis of general patterns and features of the development of the feudal formation created works in which they tried to characterize the history of feudal cities in a new way. In the works of V. I. Picheta, A.M. Karpachev, Z. Y. Kopyssky, V. I. Meleshko, A. P. Ignatenko and others, various aspects of the history of Belarusian cities are studied on the basis of the relationship between their social history and economic development. But, unfortunately, both those and other historians paid little attention to private cities. There are studies by A. I. Baranovich about Ukrainian cities, P. P. Smirnov - about Russian cities, but only some brief information or comments about Belarusian private-owning cities of the feudal era are found in the works of I. I. Lappo, M. K. Lubavsky, A. S. Grushevsky. Scientists of People's Poland (z. Kuleyevskaya-Topolskaya, S. Pazyra, T. Opas) in a number of works consider certain issues related to the Polish private city of the XVI-XVII centuries. Their works are of und ... Читать далее