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Author | : Alan Wood |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849664382 |
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 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.
Author | : Alan Wood |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 034097124X |
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.
Author | : Frank Xavier Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
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Author | : Edyta M. Bojanowska |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674985702 |
Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1850s, American Commodore Matthew Perry embarked on a legendary expedition to open trade relations with Japan. Less well known is the Russian expedition that followed on his heels. Serving aboard the Russian Frigate Pallada was the novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a bestselling book. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s travelogue as a window onto mid-19th century global imperialism. Goncharov recounts experiences in Africa’s Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, offering keen insight on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Often overlooked in the history of European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov’s gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Bojanowska’s illuminating analysis reveals both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them. A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
Author | : Frank Xavier Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Arctic regions |
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Author | : John Dundas Cochrane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : Russia |
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Author | : Walter W (Walter William) Liggett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Niobe Thompson |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0774858427 |
Based on extensive research in the Arctic Russian region of Chukotka, Settlers on the Edge is the first English-language account of settler life anywhere in the circumpolar north to appear since Robert Paine's The White Arctic (1977), and the first to explore the experiences of Soviet-era migrants to the far north. Niobe Thompson describes the remarkable transformation of a population once dedicated to establishing colonial power on a northern frontier into a rooted community of locals now resisting a renewed colonial project. He also provides unique insights into the future of identity politics in the Arctic, the role of resource capital and the oligarchs in the Russian provinces, and the fundamental human questions of belonging and transience.
Author | : Oksana Sarkisova |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786730405 |
Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen. Such films created blueprints of the Soviet domain's scenic, cultural and ethnographic perimeters and brought together - in many ways disparate - nations under one umbrella. Categorised as kulturfilms, they served as experimental grounds for developing the cinematic formulae of a multiethnic, multinational Soviet identity. Screening Soviet Nationalities examines the non-fictional representations of Soviet borderlands from the Far North to the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia between 1925-1940. Beginning with Dziga Vertov and his vision of the Soviet space as a unified, multinational mosaic, Oksana Sarkisova rediscovers films by Vladimir Erofeev, Vladimir Shneiderov, Alexander Litvinov, Mikhail Slutskii, Amo Bek-Nazarov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Roman Karmen and other filmmakers who helped construct an image of Soviet ethnic diversity and left behind a lasting visual legacy.The book contributes to our understanding of changing ethnographic conventions of representation, looks at studies of diversity despite the homogenising ambitions of the Soviet project, and reexamines methods of blending reality and fiction as part of both ideological and educational agendas. Using a wealth of unexplored archival evidence from the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (RGAKFD) as well as the Gosfilmofond state film archive, Sarkisova examines constructions of exoticism, backwardness and Soviet-driven modernity through these remarkable and underexplored historical travelogues.
Author | : John Dundas Cochrane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Russia |
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