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Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

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Electronic edition from 2016

Author(s): Willard Sunderland
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2004

Language: English
Commentary: Electronic edition from 2016
Pages: 239
City: New York
Tags: history, russia, colonization, steppe

Frontpage
Contents
Maps
Preface
Introduction. Steppe Building
1. Frontier Colonization
The Rus' Land and the Field
The Wild Field and the Tsardom
The Empire and the Steppe
2. Enlightened Colonization
Reason’s Territory
Reason’s Process
3. Bureaucratic Colonization
The Vastness and the Nation
The Bureaucrats and the Settlers
4. Reformist Colonization
The System and the Peasants
The Pioneers and the Public
5. “Correct Colonization”
Colonizing Capacities and the Russian Element
The Dwindling Prairie and the Growing Borderland
Conclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe Destroying
Note on Archival Sources
Index