Adrian Jones contrasts the different Kievan (C10th-C13th) and Tatar-Mongol (C13th to C15th) eras, tracing their different influences on medieval Russian history. Adrian refers wherever possible to illustrations from the period. He places events and polities in Russia in the wider context of Eurasian history. Copyright 2013 Adrian Jones / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Early Imperial Russia

Kiev Russia and Tatar-Mongols

In this subject, students examine the emergence, consolidation and development of Russian state and society in a hitherto 'wild' region in eastern Europe. The formative phase in the political, social and intellectual history of the Tsardom of Muscovy is traced. The focus is on the interplay of strange dichotomies like those between autocracy and oligarchy, patriarchy and communalism, xenophobia and Westernism, in shaping Russian state, society and culture in the turbulent era of Ivan the Terrible.

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Early Imperial Russia