Alexandra Dmitrievna Lublinskaya (, May 27, 1902 – January 22, 1980)Andrew Lossky

''Nouvelles de la République des Lettres'', 2 (1981), pp. 204-08 was a Soviet scholar specialising in the history of seventeenth-century France, among other things. Her ''French Absolutism'', originally published in Russian in 1965, and translated into English by

Brian Pearce Brian Leonard Pearce (8 May 1915 – 25 November 2008) was a British Marxist political activist, historian, and translator. Adept and prolific in Russian-to-English translation, Pearce was regarded at the time of his death as "one of the most a ...

, with a foreword by

J. H. Elliott Sir John Huxtable Elliott (23 June 1930 – 10 March 2022) was a British historian and Hispanist who was Regius Professor at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He published u ...

, was published by

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in 1968. It is a criticism of the general crisis of the 17th century thesis proposed by

Hugh Trevor-Roper Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford), Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Rope ...

. The "general crisis" thesis generated controversy between supporters of this theory and those, such as the Marxist historian

Eric Hobsbawm Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" (''Th ...

, who believed in the "general crisis," but saw the problems of 17th-century Europe as more social and economic in origin than Trevor-Roper would allow. A third faction comprised those who simply denied there was any "general crisis," including Lublinskaya, Dutch historian Ivo Schöffer and the Danish historian Niels Steensgaard.Rabb, Theodore K.''The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1975 pages 20–21 & 25–26. Her professional publications number over 200, on a great variety of topics, but can be broken into three categories: works on

paleography Palaeography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, UK) or paleography (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, US) (ultimately from , , 'old', and , , 'to write') is the study and academic disciplin ...

, critical publication of historical documents, and monographs and articles on the social and political history of medieval and early modern France ("the

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" in Soviet chronology extended to about 1650). Her ''

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'' was a series of books on the history of the administration of Richelieu. The first book was ''Frantsiia v nachale XVII veka'' (1610-1622 gg.) ("France at the beginning of the 17th century, 1610-1620") published in 1959. This was followed by ''French Absolutism: the Crucial Phase, 1620-1629'' in 1965. A third book was published just before her death covering the years 1630–42. Another major work was ''Frantsuzskie krest'iane v XVI-XVIII vv.'' ("French peasants in the 16th-18th centuries"), published in 1978.

English editions

*''French Absolutism: The Crucial Phase, 1620-1629''. Cambridge University Press (2008)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lublinskaya, Alexandra 1902 births 1980 deaths Soviet Marxist historians Soviet women historians Soviet medievalists