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TLpq2461613994

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انگلیسی

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Louramore-Kirsanova, Crystal Ann

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The Russian Construction of the Medieval Mongol Legacy

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Luria, Keith

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North Carolina State University

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2020

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75

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M.A.

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North Carolina State University

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2020

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Medieval Russian literature depicts the Mongols as ungodly and destructive, and it emphasizes the Russians as antithetical to their barbaric conquerors. Traditionalists have used this literature to discredit Mongol rule in Russia and blame the Mongols for Russia's "backwardness" in history. This thesis reexamines the literature Traditionalists have used to present the Mongols as barbaric and finds that Traditionalists fail to use these works in their entirety, neglecting literature that does not fit their anti-Mongol agenda. This thesis argues that Traditionalists deploy anti-Mongol ideology to present Russia as having a strictly western identity, one that is not "backwards" in the eyes of the rest of Europe. By examining the same literature used by Traditionalists, neglected Russian literature, and Persian and Chinese accounts from the larger Mongol Empire, the thesis shows the Mongols shaped not only Russia, but the thirteenth-century world.

Medieval history

Medieval literature

Russian history

Russian literature

Slavic literature

Louramore-Kirsanova, Crystal Ann

Luria, Keith

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