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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Main Author: Shaĭkhutdinov, M. E. (Marat Ersainovich) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2021]
Edition:Updated American edition.
Subjects:
Table of 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.