Review on the Book: Pochekaev R.Yu. The Golden Horde Law (Kazan, 2009. 260 p.) » 231

• Main Author: E.G. Sayfetdinova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: State Institution «Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences» 2015-06-01
• Series: Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie
• Subjects: review; R.Yu. Pochekaev; law system; Golden Horde; monograph; research; jurisprudence.
• Online Access: http://goldhorde.ru/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/%D0%97%D0%9E-2-2015-231-236.pdf

This paper contains a review of the R.Yu. Pochekaev’s book “The Golden Horde Law”. The reviewer points out that the Pochekaev’s book is a significant academic research in both the study of the Golden Horde history and the law system of the Eurasian Turkic-Mongol peoples. This book is published by the Center for Research on the Golden Horde Civilization at the Sh.Marjani Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. For several years, the author of this book, R.Yu. Pochekaev, has been concerned with the the history of the Golden Horde State and its law system. He has published a number of works on this topic, the main conclusions of which are reflected in this generalizing work. The study is based on a wide range of sources (annals and chronicles, memoirs of contemporaries, bureaucratic and numismatic materials) and numerous studies including the works of foreign specialists in the original language. In his book, the author organically combines the latest achievements of research on both the Golden Horde history and theory and history of law. The book will be of interest to experts of the Golden Horde history and Orientalists, who are often faced with the legal aspects of the material under study.