Between East and West: The Formation of the Moscow State Contributor(s): Shaikhutdinov, Marat (Author) |
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ISBN: 1644697130 ISBN-13: 9781644697139 Publisher: Academic Studies Press OUR PRICE: $103.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | World - Russian & Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Geopolitics |
Dewey: 947.041 |
LCCN: 2021035430 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 274 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |