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Author Shaĭkhutdinov, M. E. (Marat Ersainovich), author.

Title Between East and West : the formation of the Moscow state / Marat Shaikhutdinov
Published Brookline, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 245 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
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
Notes 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
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2021)
Subject Despotism -- Russia -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Despotism
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
SUBJECT Russia -- History -- Period of Consolidation, 1462-1605. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125771
Moscow (Russia) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087440
Moscow (Russia) -- Politics and government
Moscow (Russia) -- Foreign relations
Subject Russia
Russia (Federation) -- Moscow
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021035431
ISBN 1644697149
9781644697153
1644697157
9781644697146