The Political Economy of the Golden Horde in Russian Historiography of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Политическая экономия Золотой Орды в российской историографии XIX – начала XX в.
Abdimomynov N.T. Masimkhanuly D. Abidenkyzy A. Batyrkhan B.Sh.
1 March 2026Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2026#21Issue 1181 - 192 pp.
This paper analyzes the evolution of interpretations of the political economy of the Golden Horde in pre-revolutionary Russian Historiography. It aims to reconstruct and systematize pre-revolutionary views on the key institutions of the Horde’s political economy and to identify their methodological foundations. The source base comprises works by historians of the state-centered tradition (N.M. Karamzin, S.M. Solovyov, V.O. Kliuchevsky, among others), orientalists and specialists in source studies (I.N. Berezin, G.S. Sablukov, V.G. Tiesenhausen, among others), representatives of the numismatic–archaeological line (C.M. Fraehn, V.V. Grigoriev, P.S. Saveliev, A.K. Markov, among others); as well as authors of the Genoese-Venetian historiographical line (P.I. Keppen, N.N. Murzakevich, M.M. Kovalevsky, among others). The paper shows that, within these four directions, Russian scholars consistently investigated tribute and taxation practices, mechanisms of monetary circulation, the regulation of trade, and the dynamics of trans-Eurasian transit. Thus, the political-economic dimension of the Golden Horde was conceptualized not within a single research line, but through a set of complementary approaches. It has been argued that, despite the absence of an integrated model of the Horde’s economic rationality, pre-revolutionary authors created a solid empirical and source-critical foundation by introducing and systematizing yarlyks, Eastern narrative sources, acts of Genoese and Venetian colonies, and numismatic materials.
Black Sea trade , Golden Horde , Mongol-Tatar yoke , Numismatics , Oriental studies , Political economy , Russian historiography , tribute system
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International Information Technology University (IITU), Almaty, Kazakhstan
R.B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
International Information Technology University (IITU)
R.B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
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