11: Ottoman Retreat, Russian Power, Ukrainian Populism
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Crimean Hinterland Is Not Touched by Rus.
The Crimean Hinterland is generally not touched by Greek settlement, and it's also not touched by Rus. So this is very important. We spend a whole lot of time trying to understand Rus. You understand how Rus is a kind of synthesis of Vikings coming from the north, Byzantium coming from the south - but Rus does not control territorially Crimea. Rus did not get to the Crimean Peninsula, but the Mongols did. They're indifference to what other people are is quite extraordinary. What they're doing is establishing big states. It's like in our world, in our class, in East European history, the Mongols are basically coming in and they're breaking things up
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