| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Chapter 1 The Environment: Ice-Box and El Dorado; Chapter 2 The Russian Conquest: Invasion and Assimilation; Chapter 3 The Eighteenth Century: Exploration and Exploitation; Chapter 4 The Nineteenth Century: Russian America, Reform and Regionalism; Chapter 5 The Native Peoples: Vanquished and Victims; Chapter 6 'Fetters in the Snow': The Siberian Exile System; Chapter 7 The Last Tsar of Siberia: Railroad, Revolution and Mass Migration; Chapter 8 Red Siberia: Revolution and Civil War |
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Chapter 9 Siberia under Stalin: Growth, GULag and the Great Patriotic WarChapter 10 Siberia since Stalin, 1953-91: Boom, BAM and Beyond; Afterword; Suggestions for Further Reading; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Alan Wood's ambitious work is the first to address the whole span - both chronologically and thematically - of the development of Siberia, and its role in both the Russian and the global context. With a scope that reaches from to Muscovy's conquest of Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries to modern times, it explores the effects of colonial exploitation, the Revolutions of 1917 and developments during the Soviet period. Russia's Frozen Frontier is also the first book to detail the history of Siberia from the view of Siberians themselves - both Russian and native - rather than seen through the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-267) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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| SUBJECT |
Siberia (Russia) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122207
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Russian Far East (Russia) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125703
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Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
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Ferner Osten Russland
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Sibirien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014412042 |
| ISBN |
9781849664387 |
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1849664382 |
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1283195046 |
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9781283195041 |
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9786613195043 |
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6613195049 |
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