Bribery of Elites

in the campaign “Kolomak Articles (1687)”

To guarantee acceptance of the treaty's enslaving terms, the tsardom bribed the local starshyna with guarantees that they would keep their offices, placing the elite's personal ambitions above national ones: "the hetman shall not remove anyone of the general starshyna from office without the will and decree of their most serene tsarist majesty..."[1].

ID: C0007.T0015
Technique:  Bribery of Elites
Start: January 1687
End: January 1687
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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