The History of Siberia

From Russian Conquest to Revolution
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-90761-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Russia’s vast Asian territories beyond the Urals, traditionally known as Siberia, have, despite their enormous size and the crucial role they played in the development of Russian state and society, attracted little attention from Western scholars.

Drawing together the research of Western and Soviet historians, The History of Siberia (originally published in 1991) examines the ways in which the development of Siberia has been inextricably linked with the historical evolution of the Russian Empire as a whole. Among the topics discussed are Russia’s early conquest, exploration and the colonial administration of Siberia and its indigenous people; the fate of Russian America; peasant migration and settlement; Siberia’s role as a penal colony and its part in the Russian Revolution and Civil War. A final chapter evaluates Siberia’s role in the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Siberia’s role in Russian history 2. the administrative apparatus of the Russian colony in Siberia and Northern Asia, 1581–1700 3. Subjugation and settlement in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Siberia 4. Opening up Siberia: Russia’s ‘window on the East’  5. The Siberian native peoples before and after the Russian conquest 6. Tsarist Russia in colonial America: critical constraints 7. Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia 8. Migration, settlement and the rural economy of Siberia, 1861–1914  9. Siberia in revolution and civil war, 1917–1921 Afterword: Siberia in the twentieth century

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Wood, at the time of the first publication, was Lecturer in Russian History at Lancaster University, Convenor of the British Universities Siberian Studies Seminar and the founding editor of the journal SIBIRICA.