title: Europeans and the steppe: Russian lands under the Mongol rule
abstract: The editors write in their introduction to this volume that it was only from around 1750 onwards that European powers acquired suﬃcient capacities to regularly dictate terms to political communities inmany parts of the world. It took that long to muster the capacity to project force across the distances in question. In so far as relations with non-European political communities in Russia were concerned, however, the turning point came 250 years before, in the ﬁnal decade of the ﬁfteenth century.