THE IMPACT OF MONGOLIAN CONQUEST ON RUSSIA'S SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: BASIC ASPECTS

Abstract

The article substantiates the view that the
Mongol conquest seriously ruined Rus economy when
Russian peasants had to allocate up to half of their income
to pay tributes. This circumstance hindered the
formation of feudal institutes in Northeast Russia. As the
author proves, incomes of furs sale couldnt compensate
for the countrys losses during the Mongolian period.
The authors conclusions are based on the norm of
a feudal rent in the Novgorod republic and calculations
of Novgorods fur trade returns, as well as on recent archaeological
data.