The economics of Mongol rule in Rus', 1237–1350

One of the perplexing issues of Russian history has been to unravel and more fully understand the economic impact of the Mongol era on Rus’. Mongol rule traditionally encompasses the centuries from the invasions of 1237/8 to Rus’s so-called liberation following the stand-off at the Battle of the Ugra River in 1480. Assessing the Mongol impact in the scholarly literature runs the gamut from those, like George Vernadsky, who argue that the Mongols so profoundly affected Russia that a comparison of Rus’ before the conquest to Muscovy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries reveals virtually two different civilizations. The Mongol conquest brought under its aegis control over the silk route stretching from Mongolia and China through central Asia to the Black Sea and the southern Volga region dominated by the Golden Horde. Given the lack of their own indigenous handicrafts, skilled artisans were in high demand among the Mongols

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