The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480-1725 : Trans-Cultural Worldviews in Eurasia
(eBook)

English

10.1515/9783110696431

Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 d star

The monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which increased during the breakup of the Golden Horde. By physical defense of the open steppe border and by embracing the New Israel symbolism in which the exodus from slavery in Egypt prefigures the exodus of Russian captives from Tatar captivity, Muscovites found a defensive model to expand empire. Recent scholarly debates on slaving are innovatively applied to Russian and imperial history, challenging entrenched perceptions of Muscovy.

Issued also in print.

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This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

In English.