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Author March, G. Patrick, 1924-

Title Eastern destiny : Russia in Asia and the North Pacific / G. Patrick March
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996

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Description xvii, 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Series ABC-Clio ebook
Contents 1. Geography: A Colossal and Chilling Expanse -- 2. Early Russian Experiences with Asia and Asians -- 3. Ivan IV and Muscovite Drang nach Osten -- 4. Initial Sino-Muscovite Contacts -- 5. Toward a Delineated Sino-Muscovite Border -- 6. The Kiakhta System -- 7. Japan, Kamchatka, and the Kurils -- 8. "Normalization" of Russo-Japanese Relations -- 9. To the Farthest East: The Rim of the North Pacific -- 10. Baranov, California, and Hawaii -- 11. Demise of the Russian American Company and Sale of Alaska -- 12. Living with the Kiakhta System -- 13. A New Russo-Chinese Border in the Far East -- 14. New Borders for Russia in Central Asia -- 15. Russian Railroads in Asia: Arteries of Empire -- 16. Russia, Korea, and the Sino-Japanese War -- 17. Russia, Manchuria, and the Boxer Rebellion -- 18. Korea and the Russo-Japanese War -- 19. War, Revolution, and Reconquest -- 20. Mongolia: The First Soviet Satellite -- 21. Russians, the Chinese Eastern Railway, and Sinkiang
22. The Soviet Union and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s -- 23. World War II and Settlements -- 24. The USSR and the Asian Mainland during the Cold War -- 25. The USSR and the North Pacific during the Cold War
Summary Eastern Destiny: Russia in Asia and the North Pacific is the history of a remarkable eastern expansion under tsars, emperors, and commissars. The narrative spans the period from the Mongol conquest in the 13th century to the Cold War of the 20th. An intense anxiety for security, owed in large part to the Mongol incursion, would impel the eastern Slavs relentlessly toward territorial aggrandizement. Over the centuries, the modest Grand Duchy of Moscow in Eastern Europe was so successful that it grew into the massive Russian Empire, whose lands stretched from the Holy Roman Empire in Central Eur
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-251) and index
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SUBJECT Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Russia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203
Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Soviet Union. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126312
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Russia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203
Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92056007 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606
Russia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606
Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92056007 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Pacific Area. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445
Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92056007 -- Territorial expansion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009116
Russia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203 -- Territorial expansion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009116
Russia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Pacific Area. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445
USSR -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117063 -- Asia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606
USSR -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117063 -- Pacific Area. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445
LC no. 96002199
ISBN 0275955664 (alk. paper)
0275956482 (pb : alk. paper)