| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Series |
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies |
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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Archives and abbreviations; Russian colonizations: An introduction; Part I: Muscovy, expansion, and the limits of migration; 1 Claiming Siberia: Colonial possession and property holding in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; 2 Containment vs. colonization: Muscovite approaches to settling the steppe; 3 Grant, settle, negotiate: Military servitors in the Middle Volga region; Part II: Colonization on the Imperial Russian frontier; 4 Agriculture and the environment on the steppes in the nineteenth century |
| Summary |
Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. This book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of the Eurasian past by examining the policies, practices, cultural representations, and daily-life experiences of Slavic settlement in non-Russian regions of Eurasia from the time of Ivan the Terrible to the nuclear era. The movement of tens of |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Russia -- Emigration and immigration
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Russia -- Territorial expansion
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Slavs -- Colonization -- History
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Colonization
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| SUBJECT |
Eurasia -- Colonization -- History
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| Subject |
Eurasia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schrader, Abby
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Sunderland, Willard
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| ISBN |
9780203933763 |
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0203933761 |
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1281062413 |
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9781281062413 |
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