Russia and the Golden Horde

Indiana University Press

1985

ix, 180 p.

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Bibliography: p. 158-174

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This innovative reinterpretation of the impact of the Mongol conquest and rule of Russia from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century traces and analyzes the influence of the Mongols on medieval Russia's political history, institutions, economy, society, culture, and thought. Charles J. Halperin shows that the Russo-Tatar relationship was complex, multifaceted, and by no means always hostile. Alongside the religious prejudice and ideological enmity toward the Mongols expressed in the contemporary written sources, Halperin points to countervailing evidence of close and pragmatic relationships involving intermarriage, mutually profitable trade and commerce, borrowing of political institutions, assimilation of Mongols into Russian society, and alliances between Russian princes and Mongol khans that left a more positive legacy. -- From publisher's description.

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