7: Rise of Muscovite Power
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The Mongol Connection Is Very Important
Mongol connection is very important because when the Mongol connection is broken, the basic state form remains. There's no clear moment in the history of Muscovy where you can say 'the Mongols were here and then they got on their little horses and left' The way that it worked was that, somewhere in the middle of the 15th century, the Moscow stops paying tribute. But they don't change at that point. They just stop paying tribute. It's the same entity. Okay, so we have a state which is in some way post-ruse, religion, princely family, language, all of that. But it's also in many ways a new start under
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