Siberia : a history of the people /

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores the history of this vast Russian wasteland, whose v...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartley, Janet M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations and maps
  • Editorial note
  • Time line : Rulers and leaders
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cossacks and conquest
  • 2. Land, indigenous peoples and communication
  • 3. Traders and tribute-takers
  • 4. Early settlers : the free and the unfree
  • 5. Life in a Siberian village
  • 6. Life in a Siberian town
  • 7. Life in a remote Siberian garrison
  • 8. Governing and the governed
  • 9. Exiles and convicts
  • 10. Religion and popular beliefs
  • 11. Explorers and imperialists
  • 12. Railways and change
  • 13. Wars and revolutions
  • 14. Collectivisation and the camps
  • 15. The new Soviet citizen
  • 16. The new Siberia
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.