Western Feudalism and the Russian Social Order (Polemics with A.A. Gorsky)
Medieval Russia was marked not by a West-European social synthesis of German and Roman origin, but a different one representing a recombination of ancient Russian and Eastern order. This cardinal difference reflected itself not by the end of the 16th century, as the Russian scholar A. Gorsky believes, but earlier. Having no feudal basis similar to the European one Russia was condemned to serfdom for centuries.