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Russia's Frozen Frontier A History of Siberia and the Russian Far East 1581-1991

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
eBook, English, 2011
Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2011
1 Online-Ressource (289 Seiten)
9781849664387, 9780340971246, 1849664382, 034097124X
1026405049
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