Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History book cover

1st Edition

Peopling the Russian Periphery Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History

Edited By Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland Copyright 2007
304 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

308 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
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... Read more

List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables

About the Authors and Editors

Preface

Archives Cited and Other Abbreviations

Russian Colonizations: An Introduction (Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland)

Part 1: Muscovy, Expansion, and the Limits of Migration

1. Claiming Siberia: Colonial Possession and Property Holding in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries (Valerie Kivelson)

2. Containment vs. Colonization: Muscovite Approaches to Settling the Steppe (Brian J. Boeck)

3. Grant, Settle, Negotiate: Military Servitors in the Middle Volga Region (Matthew P. Romaniello)

Part 2: Colonization on the Imperial Russian Frontier

4. Agriculture and the Environment on the Steppes in the Nineteenth Century (David Moon)

5. The "Ethic of Empire" on the Siberian Borderland: The Peculiar Case of the "Rock People," 1791-1878 (Andrei A. Znamenski)

6. Resettling People, Unsettling the Empire: Migration and the Challenge of Governance, 1861-1917 (Charles Steinwedel)

7. Progress or Peril: Migrants and Locals in Russian Tashkent, 1906-14 (Jeff Sahadeo)

Part 3: Population Politics and the Soviet Experiment

8. Acclimatization, the Shifting Science of Settlement (Cassandra Cavanaugh)

9. The Aesthetic of Stalinist Planning and the World of the Special Villages (Lynne Viola)

10. "Those Who Hurry to the Far East": Readers, Dreamers, and Volunteers (Elena Shulman)

11. The "Planet of One Hundred Languages": Ethnic Relations and Soviet Identity in the Virgin Lands (Michaela Pohl)

Part 4: Conclusions

Colonizing Eurasia (Alfred J. Rieber)

Glossary

Index

Biography

Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland

Add to Cart