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Feudal fragmentation - the defining stage of European development
Feudal fragmentation is the weakening of the central state power with the simultaneous strengthening of the peripheral regions of the country. The term applies exclusively to medieval Europe with its natural economy and a system of vassal relations. Feudal fragmentation was generated by an increase
Feudal fragmentation in Russia
The pan-European tendency of the 10th-16th centuries did not bypass the domestic principalities. At the same time, the feudal disunity of the medieval Russian state had a number of features that distinguished its character from the Western version. The first bell to the disintegration of the integrity of the state was the death of Prince Svyatoslav in 972, after which the first internecine wars for the Kiev throne began between his sons. The last ruler of the united Kievan Rus is the son of Vladimir Monomakh, Prince Mstislav Vladimirovich, who died in 1132. After his death, the state was finally divided into patrimonies by heirs and never again rose in its former form.
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As for the peculiarities of domestic disintegration, it lies, first of all, in the so-called leftist system, after which, after the death of the ruler, the throne passed to his younger brother, and not to his eldest son, as was the case in Western Europe (Salic law). This, however, was the cause of multiple internecine conflicts between sons and nephews of the Russian dynasty of the XIII-XVI centuries. Russian lands in the period of feudal disunity began to represent a number of large independent principalities. The rise of local noble families and princely households gave Rus the rise of the Novgorod Republic, the rise of Galicia-Volyn and Vladimir-Suzdal principalities, the creation and elevation of Moscow. It was the Moscow princes that destroyed feudal disunity and created the Russian kingdom.
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