Russia and the Golden Horde

The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History

Charles J. Halperin

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 1987
• Print ISBN:
  9780253204455
• eBook ISBN:
  9780253013668
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This revelatory study of Russian medieval history and the age of Mongolian conquest "infuses the subject with fresh insights and interpretations" ( History).
 
In the 13th century, a Mongolian confederation known as The Golden Horde dominated a vast region including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the Caucuses. Though it would hold power into the 15th century, the influence of the Mongolian Empire on Russian history and culture has been all but ignored. Only in recent years have historians, archeologists, and philologists started to shed much needed light on this significant period of Mongol rule.
 
In this enlightening new study, historian Charles Halperin assesses these recent findings to provide a comprehensive view of this chapter in Russian medieval history, offering a new interpretation of what role the Mongols played in the story of Russia.
 
A Selection of the History Book Club
"Combining rigorous analysis of the major scholarly findings with his own research, Halperin has produced both a much-needed synthesis and an important original work." – Library Journal

INDEX

Abbasids, 6

Abd-ul-latif, 110

Agafiia (Konchaka), 53

Agriculture, 75, 76, 79, 83

Akhmad, 35, 36–37, 72–73; and stand on the Ugra river, 59, 70–71

Alans, 45–46

Aleksandr, 53–54

Alexander Nevskii. See Nevskii, Alexander

Alexander Nevskii, vita of, 67, 71, 121

Andrei Bogoliubskii, 12

Andrei Konstantinovich, 41

Andrei Rublev, 123

Andrei Yaroslavovich, 49, 53

Anna (tsaritsa), 110, 153–54 n. 18

Apocalypse, 64

Arabic language, 5, 123

Arabs: and Byzantine provinces, 148 n.9

Archers, 22–23, 91

Architecture, 120, 124, 125, 156 n.5

Argaman, 34, 36, 37

Aristocracy, 78–79, 94, 106–107, 111–13, 150 n.22

Armenians, 62

Artisans, 17, 76

Arts, 120–25

Astrakhan’, 29, 60, 85, 100, 102

Autocracy: in Muscovy, 87, 90–103, 117

Avars, 47

Azerbaidjan, 27–28, 30, 79

Balkans, 15, 47, 70; Muslim and Christian interaction in, 1, 3, 6, 7

Baltic trade route, 80–81

Basileus, 71, 98, 152 n.42

Baskaki, 31, 33–40, 43, 48, 70, 129; replacement with danshchiki, 89; subsistence for, 77

Batu, 25, 30, 34, 47–48, 76, 78, 146 n.31; bookmen on, 66–68, 69–70, 71, 72–73; folktale portrayal of, 108–109

Belorussia, 52, 59, 85

Black Death, 83–84

Bolgar, 30

Bondage, 116–17

Bookmen, 104–106, 118, 121, 124; on Chingisid principle, 98–100, 101–102; on Mongol conquest, 8, 20, 61–74, 127, 129; on nomads, 8, 19–20; on t’my, 42–43; on Ugra river stand, 59

Boyar duma, 151 n.27

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I The Medieval Ethno-Religious Frontier
• II Kievan Rus’ and the Steppe
• III The Mongol Empire and the Golden Horde
• IV The Mongol Administration of Russia
• V The Mongol Role in Russian Politics
• VI The Russian “Theory” of Mongol Rule
• VII Economic and Demographic Consequences
• VIII The Mongols and the Muscovite Autocracy
• IX The Mongols and Russian Society
• X Cultural Life
• XI Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index