Description |
xvii, 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
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ABC-Clio ebook
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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 |
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Russia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203 -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007590 -- Asia.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606
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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
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Russia (Federation) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92056007 -- Territorial expansion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009116
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Russia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80001203 -- Territorial expansion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009116
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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
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USSR -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117063 -- Asia.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606
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USSR -- Relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117063 -- Pacific Area.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445
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LC no. |
96002199 |
ISBN |
0275955664 (alk. paper) |
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0275956482 (pb : alk. paper) |
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