Between East and West : : The Formation of the Moscow State / / Marat Shaikhutdinov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Shaikhutdinov, Marat,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Ancient Geographical Maps of Moscovia, Europe, and Asia --; Author’s Preface to the American Edition --; Introduction --; 1. Historiography of the Formation of Moscow --; 2. Moscow as a New Geopolitical Player --; 3. Change in the Balance of Power between Rus and the Ulus Juchi --; 4. Rus between the Horde and Lithuania --; 5. The Course towards the Creation of the Centralized Sta --; 6. The Origin of the Russian Autocracy --; 7. The Last Gatherer of the Russian Land --; Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644697146; 9783110743210; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754087; 9783110753851
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644697146?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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. 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.