Acknowledgements This dissertation has been written under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of the University of Stockholm. The subject for this study was proposed to me by Professor Erik Anners, without whose support and enthusiasm this book would not have been completed. I owe him a great debt of gratitude. The Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning founded by Gustav and Carin Olin has given me generous economic support over the past four years and has been kind enough to accept this study in its publication series Rättshistoriskt bibliotek. A stipend from the Swedish Institute within the framework of the bilateral cultural agreement between Sweden and the Soviet Union allowed me to study the Russian archival sources at the Tsentral’nyi Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Drevnikh Aktov in Moscow for a period of six months during the academic year of 1974—1975. I have also benefited from travel funds provided by the University of Stockholm. To all of these institutions I would like to extend my grateful appreciation. Finally, I would like to thank Professor Michael F. Metcalf of the University of Minnesota, who not only translated this dissertation from the Swedish original, but who also offered many valuable comments on the text.
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