The Russian Frontier: The Impact of Borderlands upon the Course of Early Russian History

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Author(s): Joseph L. Wieczynski
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Year: 1976

Language: English
Pages: x+108
City: Charlottesville

Contents
Preface
I. The Frontier Hypothesis
II. Kievan Rus: A Frontier Society
III. The Decline of Kiev and the Survival of the Frontier Lands of Novgorod
IV. The Loss of Frontiers
V. The Revival of the Frontier Spirit amid the Foils of Serfdom
VI. The Southern Borderlands
VII. The Siberian Safety Valve
VIII. The Frontier Life of Siberia
IX. The Legacy of the Frontier in Russian History
Index