In old western historiography, up to like 40-50 years ago Mongols were often portrayed as wild savages, “scourge of god” etc. Socialist historiography was more neutral on them (like Lev Gumilev or Stanisław Kałużyński). Recently westerners did close to a 180 on them though, as part of the historical revision trend going for at least 3 decades (most of that trend is actually not that bad, for example new critical look on ancient roman sources, still a lot worse than marxist view but a lot better than uncritically quoting Suetonius for example). From the top of my head read anything by John Man or Justin Marozzi.
Iirc he was antisemite and proponent of central Asian nationalism? Something like that. Still, i think he did first proper marxist analysis of history of the nomads.
Aye, he’s the one who proposed the whole “Ashkenazim are akschually khazars and thus not real Jews”. He also blamed these jew-khazars for various things, i.e. introducing alcohol drinking to ancient Rus
Are Mongols really portrayed as evil in the west?
I honestly can’t even recall portrayals of Mongols in mainstream western media.
In old western historiography, up to like 40-50 years ago Mongols were often portrayed as wild savages, “scourge of god” etc. Socialist historiography was more neutral on them (like Lev Gumilev or Stanisław Kałużyński). Recently westerners did close to a 180 on them though, as part of the historical revision trend going for at least 3 decades (most of that trend is actually not that bad, for example new critical look on ancient roman sources, still a lot worse than marxist view but a lot better than uncritically quoting Suetonius for example). From the top of my head read anything by John Man or Justin Marozzi.
Screw Lev Gumilev, though
Iirc he was antisemite and proponent of central Asian nationalism? Something like that. Still, i think he did first proper marxist analysis of history of the nomads.
Aye, he’s the one who proposed the whole “Ashkenazim are akschually khazars and thus not real Jews”. He also blamed these jew-khazars for various things, i.e. introducing alcohol drinking to ancient Rus
Wew, i do know he had some bad takes about Khazars, but not that he coined that vile theory.