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1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Introduction: What Is Asia to Us? From Dostoevsky to Gorbachev; PART ONE Asia and the Russians; 2 Russian Ideology and Asia; Asia and Us; The Russian Idea and Revolution; Long Live Free Asia; The Russian Idea Today; 3 Historians and Geographers; Historians and Russia's Civilizing Mission in Asia; Geographers: Russia's Vanguard in Central Asia; Colonel Venyukov; Navel of the Earth; 4 Easterners and Eurasianists; The Yellow Peril Threat |
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Yuzhakov and FyodorovPan-Mongolism; Yellow Russia; Exodus to the East: Trubetskoy and Savitsky; Eurasian Rapprochement and Fusion; PART TWO Russia's Central Asian Heartland; 5 Russia's Drive South; The Russian Space; Geographic Projections: What is Central Asia?; The Historic Perspective of Central Asia; General Snesarev and the Central Asia Question; Three Elements of Russian Strategy in the Indo-Persian Corridor; Railroad Imperialism in Central Asia; The Trans-Persian Railway Dream; Dual Strategy in the Indo-Persian Corridor; A Breakout to the Indian Ocean?; PART THREE The Heartland Debate |
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6 Mackinder's Concept of Heartland Russia in 1904Land Power versus Sea Power; Who Commands the Heartland?; Importance of Railroads; 7 Mackinder and the Russian Quest for a New Center of Gravity; A Conspiracy of Silence?; The Elusive Center of Russian Eurasia; The Empire from Sea to Sea: Mendeleev and Semyonov Tyan-Shansky; Voeikov, Savitsky, and Lamansky; Mackinder's Heartland Russia in 1919 and 1943; 8 German Geopolitik, Haushofer, and the Russians; Russia and German Mediators; The Nazi Connection; A German Lawrence among the Bolsheviks; Haushofer and Mackinder's Heartland |
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The Indo-Pacific SpaceHaushofer's Transcontinental Bloc versus Hitler's Lebensraum; Haushofer's Liaison Fatale; 9 The Heartland Revisited: Geopolitics in Soviet Perspective; Mackinder, the First Visitor; German Geopolitik and the new Soviet Herzland; the Empire's Center of Gravity Is Moving Eastward; a Heartland Navy?; Marxism and Aziatchina; Soviet Definition of Geopolitika; Demography and the New Soviet Man; Lenin, Bukharin and Geopolitics; 10 Geopolitics and the Soviet Eurasian Empire Today; Environmental Determinism-still Undetermined |
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The Empire's Moving Center of Gravity and the Soviet PeopleExcursion I: Prokhanovshtina-an Example of New Soviet Geopolitics or an Anachronism?; Excursion II: the Heartland Debate After Mackinder's Death; Why Should the Heartland Debate Be Resumed; 11 In Place of Conclusions What Is Asia to Gorbachev's Russia?; Where Is the Soviet Eurasian Empire Moving under Gorbachev?; Do the Forces of Nationalism Represent the Main Threat to the Empire's Coherence?; Index |
| Summary |
This book, first published in 1990, considers the uneasy relationship between Russia and Soviet Central Asia. Chapters examine both the significance of Asia to the Russian mind and the place that Asia has occupied in Russian geopolitical thinking in the last hundred years, showing that outbreaks of violence are simply a manifestation of a long-standing tension. This is a remarkable and comprehensive study, which will be of great value to those concerned with the history and future of Central Asia and Siberia |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Mackinder, Halford John, 1861-1947.
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Mackinder, Halford John, 1861-1947 fast |
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Geopolitics -- Soviet Union
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Eastern question (Far East)
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Eastern question (Far East)
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Geopolitics
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Historical geography
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Soviet Union -- Historical geography
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Russian Far East (Russia) -- Historical geography
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Asia, Central -- Historical geography
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Central Asia
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Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East
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Soviet Union
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134461257 |
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1134461259 |
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