ISBN:
9781000090994
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Modern History Ser
DDC:
303.4824705
Keywords:
Russia-Relations-Asia, Central
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Imaginations, interactions, and realities -- PART I: Imaginations -- 1. "These plains of Great Russia were once the bottom of the sea": Peter Simon Pallas, Siberian geohistory, and empire -- 2. The view of the golden mountains: The Altai and the historical resilience of the imagination -- 3. Imaginary travel to imaginary Constantinople: A painted panorama, the periodical press, and the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829) -- 4. Chinese roads in the Russian imagination and in reality: The 1870s as a decade of discovery -- PART II: Interactions -- 5. Captivity and empire: Central Asia in nineteenth-century Russian captivity narratives -- 6. Imperial dreams and the Russo-Japanese War: The diary of Field Chaplain Mitrofan Srebrianski -- 7. Bad medicine: Ritual, sacrifice, and the birth of Soviet Sakha literature -- 8. Heroism or colonialism? China and the Soviet imagination of Manchuria in Port Arthur -- PART III: Realities -- 9. Welfare and work: Reintegrating "invalids" into Soviet Kyrgyzstan after the Great Patriotic War -- 10. Urbanization, language vitality, and well-being in Russian Eurasia -- 11. Evolving language contact and multilingualism in Northeastern Russia -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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