Internal strife is a family feud

Quite often in world history it happened that the brother went to war with his brother, and the son went to his father. Strictly speaking, internecine strife is the hostile relationship between relatives within the family, the strife of its close members.

Common sense

Now this concept is used in a broader context - direct and figurative. Internal strife is not only a family feud. Still - there are significant differences on various issues between any people, a swish between political and public figures, groups, regions, even countries. The concept is also used in relation to the management personnel or several related firms, for example, feuds of directors or enterprises. In a sense, the civil war between the population of Russia in the 20th century is also a feud, when the brother rebelled against his brother, his son killed his father.

Princely feuds

In the historical context, the concept, as a rule, is used in relation to wars for power and territory between relatives-princes in the era of Kievan Rus. The main time period of these historic wars was in the tenth to eleventh centuries.

Causes

One can single out the main reason: in the territories subject to the princes, there did not exist in those years a single state, a general centralization of power. There was no tradition, according to historical data, to transfer power to the eldest of the sons. And since the Grand Dukes left behind many heirs-sons, internecine strife - this was the most common way out of the existing situation in the struggle for power. We can say that at a certain stage in the history of Russia (about the 13th century), rulers simply doomed the heirs to endless enmity. However, even after gaining power, for example, in one of the big cities, the heirs tried to get the board in Kiev itself. And the civil strife is a struggle for the redistribution of territories, the desire of some princes, on the contrary, is less dependent on the Kiev authorities.

Classification

In the history of Russia, it is customary to single out several stages of such enmity. The first is dated to the 10th century, when the feud of Svyatoslav's sons arose. The second (the beginning of the 11th century) is the struggle for supremacy between the sons of Prince Vladimir. And at the end of the 11th century, the sons of Yaroslav had already made attempts to redistribute the inheritance. All these endless wars were bloody enough, and, in fact, led to the mass death of the Russian people - ordinary peasants, townspeople, vigilantes, and heirs, who were less fortunate in redistributing territories and power.