SOCIO-POLITICAL FORMATIONS OF THE TURKS AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE GOLDEN HORDE

The paper examines the peculiarities of socio-political formations of the Turks after the collapse ofthe Golden Horde. Different points of view on this problem are considered. The authors conclude that theMongolian influence in the Middle Ages on the neighboring peoples, in particular on the Turks and Slavs,was positive, rather than negative. Mongols became a factor in their ethnic, state-legal, spiritual, and culturaldevelopment. The elucidation of the specifics of the state system, politico-legal life of pre-Petrine Russiahelps to understand many of the peculiarities of the medieval Turkic-Mongolian statehood and the generaltendencies of the foreign policy of Russia in the 16th-19th centuries in relation to the Turks.