Russia's frozen frontier : a history of Siberia and the Russian Far East 1581-1991 / / Alan Wood

• Autore: Wood Alan <1943->
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 957
• Soggetto geografico: Siberia (Russia) History
• Classificazione: 7,41
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- List Of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes On The Text -- Chapter 1: The Environment: Ice-Box And El Dorado -- Size -- Climate -- The Regions Of Siberia -- West Siberia -- East Siberia -- The Russian Far East -- Natural Resources -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: The Russian Conquest: Invasion And Assimilation -- Yermak -- The Russian Advance -- Fur And Further Settlement -- Population And Colonization -- Archpriest Avvakum: Russia's "Turbulent Priest" -- Chapter 3: The Eighteenth Century: Exploration And Exploitation -- Voyages Of Discovery And The First Kamchatka Expedition -- Messerschmidt And Krasheninnikov -- The Siberian-Pacific Expedition -- Black Metal And Solid Gold -- Ssylka, Katorga And Colonial Settlement -- Chapter 4: The Nineteenth Century: Russian America, Reform And Regionalism -- Russian America -- Siberia, Speranskii And Supererogation -- Siberian Oblastnichestvo -- Agenda For Radical Regional Reform -- Reform Or Revolution? -- From Alaska To The Amur -- Chapter 5: The Native Peoples: Vanquished And Victims -- The Pre-Russian Peoples Of Siberia -- Siberian Ethnic Groups -- Animism, Shamanism And Siberian Folk Beliefs -- Speranskii And The Native Siberians -- Yadrintsev And The Inorodcheskii Vopros -- Chapter 6 'Fetters in the Snow': The Siberian Exile System -- Siberian Exile: Origins And Development -- Ssylka And Speranskii -- The Exile Operation -- Convoys And Communes -- Sex, Violence And "General Cuckoo's Army" -- Ssylka: For And Against -- For Exile -- Against Exile -- Chapter 7: The Last Tsar Of Siberia: Railroad, Revolution And Mass Migration -- The Siberian Economy: Monomorph Or Mosaic? -- The Trans-Siberian Railroad -- War And Revolution -- Migration And Massacre -- The Siberian Svengali -- Chapter 8: Red Siberia: Revolution And Civil War -- Left, Right: Red, White -- The "Democratic Counter-Revolution" -- Atrocious Atamans -- The End Of The Tsarism -- Kolchakovshchina, November 1918 - February 1920 -- Far Eastern Finale: February 1920 - October 1922 -- Chapter 9: Siberia Under Stalin: Growth, Gulag And The Great Patriotic War -- Siberia And Nep -- Nep, The Far East And The Siberian Native Peoples -- Collectivization And Industrialization -- Gulag -- War And Reconstruction -- Chapter 10: Siberia Since Stalin, 1953-1991: Boom, Bam And Beyond -- "The Thaw" -- Siberia's "New Atlantis" -- Boom And Bam -- The Oil And Gas Rush -- Hydroelectric Power -- The Bam -- Siberian Regionalism: Past, Present And Future -- Exile And Crime -- Economic Exploitation And Environmental Problems -- Educational And Cultural Provision -- Afterword -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Alan Wood's ambitious work is the first to address the whole span - both chronologically and thematically - of the development of Siberia, and its role in both the Russian and the global context. With a scope that reaches from to Muscovy's conquest of Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries to modern times, it explores the effects of colonial exploitation, the Revolutions of 1917 and developments during the Soviet period. Russia's Frozen Frontier is also the first book to detail the history of Siberia from the view of Siberians themselves - both Russian and native - rather than seen through the lens of Moscow or St Petersburg.
• Titolo autorizzato: Russia's frozen frontier
• ISBN: 1-84966-438-2; 1-283-19504-6; 9786613195043
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790959903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II