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7: Rise of Muscovite Power

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Principle of Political Succession

The principle of political succession in the old roost, the one based in Kiev, was admittedly very messy. In northeastern roosts, there's a new succession principle: how well can you collect taxes for the Mongol overlord? The Mongols accept that there's something called roosts; they have no trouble with that. But who is the grand prince of roost? The person who can collect the tribute. So, that is a new principle of rule. That is new compared to Kiev, where if you were in Kiev, you were the one taking the tribute, right? And, by the way, this is a really fundamental thing about political power.

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