| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 245 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
This updated American edition is dedicated to the influence of the East and the West on the rise of the Moscow principality and its gradual transformation into a centralized Moscow state from the twelfth to the early sixteenth. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Author's preface to the American edition -- Introduction -- Historiography of the formation of Moscow -- Moscow as a new geopolitical player -- Changing the balance of power between Rus and Ulus Jochi -- Rus between the Horde and Lithuania -- The course towards the creation of a centralized state -- The origin of the Russian autocracy -- "The last gatherer of the Russian land" -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Drawing on a wide range of sources and historiographical material, Between East and West provides a comprehensive analysis of the efforts of the Moscow princes to form a centralized Russian state. According to the author, the unification of Russia around Moscow was not historically inevitable. Tver, Novgorod, and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania also claimed this role, and if they had been victorious, a less authoritarian, less autocratic and less despotic Russian state could have emerged. Professor Shaikhutdinov rejects the concept of the "Mongol-Tatar yoke" and claims that relations between Moscow and Ulus Jochi (Golden Horde) were more complicated and interdependent. The influence of Ulus Jochi on Moscow was especially strong in the political, economic and military spheres, while the religious field was dominated by the influence from Byzantium. The volume discusses in detail the geopolitical aspirations of Russia and the "Moscow-Third Rome" theory. In sum, the formation of the Moscow state was directly influenced by both internal and external factors, countries of the East and the West"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Despotism -- Russia -- History.
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Despotism. |
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Russia. |
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History. |
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Russia -- History -- Period of Consolidation, 1462-1605.
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Moscow (Russia) -- History.
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Moscow (Russia) -- Politics and government.
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Moscow (Russia) -- Foreign relations.
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Diplomatic relations. |
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Politics and government. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Moscow. |
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HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. |
| Chronological Term |
1462-1605 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shaĭkhutdinov, M. E. Between East and West Updated American edition. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2021 9781644697139 (DLC) 2021035430 |
| ISBN |
1644697149 electronic book |
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9781644697153 electronic book |
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1644697157 electronic book |
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9781644697146 (electronic book) |
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9781644697139 hardcover |
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