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" Russia's frozen frontier : "
Alan Wood.
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BL
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103779
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b61324
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| Main Entry
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Wood, Alan,1943-
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| Title & Author
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Russia's frozen frontier : : a history of Siberia and the Russian Far East 1581-1991 /\ Alan Wood.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Bloomsbury Academic,, 2011.
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xii, 272 p. :: ill., maps ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780340971246 (hardback)
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: 034097124X (hardback)
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9781849660259 (ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-267) and index.
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| Contents
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The environment : ice-box and El Dorado -- The 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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Siberia (Russia), History.
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| Dewey Classification
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957
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DK761.W66 2011
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7,41ssgn
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