Peopling the Russian periphery : borderland colonization in Eurasian history / edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, and Willard Sunderland

Published:: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Physical Description:: xvi, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Breyfogle, Nicholas B., 1968-, Schrader, Abby M., and Sunderland, Willard, 1965-

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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 38

Contents:

Russian colonizations : an introduction / Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland -- Claiming Siberia : colonial possession and property holding in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Valerie Kivelson -- Containment vs. colonization : Muscovite approaches to settling the steppe / Brian J. Boeck -- Grant, settle, negotiate : military servitors in the middle Volga region / Matthew P. Romaniello -- Agriculture and the environment on the steppes in the nineteenth century / David Moon -- The "ethic of empire" on the Siberian borderland : the peculiar case of the "rock people," 1791-1878 / Andrei A. Znamenski -- Resettling people, unsettling the empire : migration and the challenge of governance, 1861-1917 / Charles Steinwedel -- Progress or peril : migrants and locals in Russian Tashkent, 1906-14 / Jeff Sahadeo -- Acclimatization, the shifting science of settlement / Cassandra Cavanaugh -- The aesthetic of Stalinist planning and the world of the special villages / Lynne Viola -- "Those who hurry to the Far East" : readers, dreamers, and volunteers / Elena Shulman -- The "planet of one hundred languages" : ethnic relations and Soviet identity in the virgin lands / Michaela Pohl -- Colonizing Eurasia / Alfred J. Rieber.

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0415418801 (hbk.)
9780415418805 (hbk.)
0203933761 (ebk.)
9780203933763 (ebk.)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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