Taming the Wild Field

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ISBN: 9780801473470 | 0801473470
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Copyright: 8/3/2006

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Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Musc

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List of Maps	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Steppe Building	p. 1
Frontier Colonization	p. 11
The Rus' Land and the Field	p. 11
The Wild Field and the Tsardom	p. 15
The Empire and the Steppe	p. 35
Enlightened Colonization	p. 55
Reason's Territory	p. 55
Reason's Process	p. 73
Bureaucratic Colonization	p. 97
The Vastness and the Nation	p. 97
The Bureaucrats and the Settlers	p. 113
Reformist Colonization	p. 137
The System and the Peasants	p. 137
The Pioneers and the Public	p. 160
"Correct Colonization"	p. 177
Colonizing Capacities and the Russian Element	p. 177
The Dwindling Prairie and the Growing Borderland	p. 196
Conclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe Destroying	p. 223
Note on Archival Sources	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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