title: The Tatars and the Term Zakhvatchiki in Soviet Historiography
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metadata.value: Halperin, Charles J.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T13:08:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T13:08:02Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.value: Halperin Ch. J. The Tatars and the Term Zakhvatchiki in Soviet Historiography. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 4, рр. 1429–1439.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.417
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16934
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Soviet historiography categorized the Mongols in general and the Tatars of the Golden Horde
  in particular as zakhvatchiki. Reading Soviet historiography on Rus’-Tatar relations induces
  the thought that the use of the word zakhvatchiki had an anti-nomadic coloration, that it was
  a negative denomination just for nomadic tribes who were a frequent occurrence in Russian
  history. Post-Soviet Russian historiography has not completely overcome the heritage of using
  this demeaning term to dismiss the Tatars as barbarian parasites. However, examination of
  an artifact of Soviet historiography, a multi-volume collective work on historiography in the
  territory that came to comprise the Soviet Union, disproves any suspicion that application
  of this word to the Tatars derives from anti-nomad prejudice. To appreciate this evidence
  properly it must be cited in extenso. To illustrate the dispersion of such references, the author
  cites them individually by first surveying appearances of the term volume by volume. In each
  case, he enumerates the name(s) of the historian(s), their subject, where appropriate — the
  chronology, who the zakhvatchiki were, and who their victims were. He interprets references
  to zakhvatnicheskie policies as markers of who was a zakhvatchik. After that he provides aggregate
  analysis of this evidence. Soviet historians applied the word to all periods of world,
  not just Russian, history, to anyone who qualified as a villain in Soviet Marxist historiography,
  most often, unsurprisingly, to imperialists. The author examines the meaning of the word
  separately. It is difficult to convey the richness of its connotations by a single word in English.
  Consequently, the word itself has no anti-nomad connotations; in effect, it can be reduced to a
  cliche moniker for all “bad guys.” It is still anachronistic because no medieval Rus’ source ever
  called the Tatars “zakhvatchiki.” It should be avoided in scholarship.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: zakhvatchik
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tatars
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Golden Horde
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Tatars and the Term Zakhvatchiki in Soviet Historiography
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metadata.value: Article
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