Between East and West : the formation of the Moscow state / Marat Shaikhutdinov.
"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....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Brookline, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
[2021]
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| Edition: | Updated American edition. |
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| 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"-- |
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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | xxvii, 245 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781644697139 1644697130 |