title: On Rewriting the History of the Relations between Russia and the Horde
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metadata.value: Froyanov, Igor Ya.
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metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:46:52Z
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metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:46:52Z
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metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Froyanov I. Ya. On Rewriting the History of the Relations between Russia and the Horde. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 1, pp. 196–222.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.114
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9288
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyzes the attempts of modern researchers to rewrite the history of relations
  between Russia and the Horde. It devotes a particular attention to the works by A. A. Gorsky,
  which have a number of undoubted merits: emphasizing the devastating nature of Batu’s invasion;
  references to the fact that Russia “directly” was not part of the Golden Horde; recognition
  of a significant influence of the Horde on the political system of Rus’; other subtle observations
  of a more peculiar character, etc. At the same time, the author of the article cannot agree with
  the statements by A. A. Gorsky, according to which, the Russians recognized the legitimacy of
  the “royal power” of the Horde khans, considering it to be higher than that of princes, which
  resulted in the refusal of a conscious struggle against the “suzerainty” of the Horde Khan
  until the reign of Ivan III. A. A. Gorsky did not provide convincing arguments in favor of the
  legitimacy of the power of the Horde khans over Rus’, and he could not do so, since the power
  established by external violence and based on external force, by definition is not legitimate.
  Claiming that the princes fought only with the khans-usurpers, A. A. Gorsky, voluntarily or
  involuntarily, according to the author, leads the reader to the idea that the Russians acted as
  defenders of the “legitimate” khanate power, thus, freely putting on themselves the yoke of the
  Horde’s slavery. On the basis of historical facts the author of the article shows that it was not
  a reconsideration of the legitimacy of the khanate on the part of the Russians, as it is asserted
  by A. A. Gorsky, but the objective historical processes of weakening and decay of the Horde,
  on the one hand, and strengthening of Russia, on the other hand, which caused changes in the
  balance and the overthrow of the Horde’s yoke. In the author’s view, a special attention should
  be paid to the analysis of circumstances that led A. A. Gorsky to the rejection of perceiving
  the Horde’s dominance over Rus’ as yoke and his using a vague term “dependence” instead.
  The article stresses that such a transformation can be attributed to opportunistic, rather than
  scholarly, considerations related to A. A. Gorsky’s involvement in the developing of the historical
  and cultural educational standards. The above-mentioned statements by A. A. Gorsky, in
  the opinion of the author, do not stand up to criticism if considered against the historical reality,
  and also contribute to the de-heroization of the Russian people during the Tatar-Mongol
  yoke, which, in principle, does not differ from the rewriting of the history of Russia of the 20th
  century (for example, the history of the Great Patriotic War).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. A. Gorsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Golden Horde
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian-Horde relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legitimacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: khan’s power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: princes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Horde yoke
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Horde dependence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political conjuncture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: de-heroization of the past
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: On Rewriting the History of the Relations between Russia and the Horde
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metadata.value: Article
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