Was There a Mongol Yoke?
TBR Senior researcher Matthew Raphael Johnson again challenges conventional wisdom on the Russian empire. In Russia itself, it is rare to find textbooks or historians who believe that the Mongols occupied Russia in the high middle ages. In the US, that has not even begun to penetrate. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-140803/TS-1102921.mp3 Initially skeptical, Dr. Johnson was slowly convinced by…