Format:
XII, 272 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780340971246
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034097124X
Content:
Told from a Siberian point of view, this book seeks to dispel something of the miasma of ignorance and misconception surrounding this vast expanse the planet's land-surface, its fascinating history, its natural environment and - most importantly - the peoples who live, or have lived and died, there
Note:
The environment : ice-box and El DoradoThe Russian conquest : invasion and assimilation -- The eighteenth century : exploration and exploitation -- The nineteenth century : Russian America, reform and regionalism -- The native peoples : vanquished and victims -- 'Fetters in the snow' : the Siberian exile system -- The last tsar of Siberia : railroad, revolution and mass migration -- Red Siberia : revolution and civil war -- Siberia under Stalin : growth, GULag and the Great Patriotic War -- Siberia since Stalin, 1953-91 : boom, BAM, and beyond.
Additional Edition:
9781849660259
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Slavic Studies
Keywords:
Sibirien
;
Eroberung
;
Erschließung
;
Geschichte 1581-1991
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