Russia and Kazan

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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- I. Introduction -- Part One -- II. The Relations Between Muscovy and the Kazan Khanate, 1438-1552 -- Part Two. Muscovite Legal Claims to the Kazan Khanate and Historical, Dynastic, and National Justifications for Its Conquest -- III. Investiture of Khans with the Khanate of Kazan - a Legal Prerogative of the Muscovite Rulers -- IV. The Kazan Yurt - a Votcina of the Muscovite Rulers -- V. The Muscovite "Law of Conquest" and Kazan -- VI. Historical and Dynastic Justifications for the Kazan Conquest -- VII. The National Justification of the Conquest: Kazan - "A Russian Land" -- Part Three -- VIII. The Theory of Bulgar-Kazan Continuity: The Projection of Muscovite Political Ideas into Turkic and East European History -- Part Four. The Struggle Between Two Worlds: Orthodox Christianity And Islam -- IX. The Religious Struggle against the Kazanian Tatars: Comments, Projects and Exhortations -- X. Prophecies, Predictions, Omens and Miracles -- XI. The Liberation of Russian Christians from Muslim Captivity -- XII. The Expansion of the Orthodox Christian Faith -- XIII. The Martyrology of the Kazan Conquest -- XIV. Conclusion -- Illustrations -- Appendices -- Selected Bibliography -- Index