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A history of the peoples of Siberia
A history of the peoples of Siberia: Russia's north Asian colony, 1581-1990
James Forsyth
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge University Press, 1992.
ISBN: 0521403111   DDC: 957.004   LCC: DK758  

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-436) and index.

1. Siberia 'Discovered'. Sixteenth-century Russia and the advance to
the Urals. The geographical background. The Khantys and Mansis of
Western Siberia. The Samoyeds of the tundra. The Selkups and Kets.
The Siberian Turks. The Tatar khanate of Sibir -- 2. Siberia Invaded:
The Seventeenth Century. The Russian conquest of the Urals and the
Siberian Tatar khanate. Russian penetration into Western Siberia. The
fur trade and tribute. Russian colonial settlers in Western Siberia
-- 3. Central and North-East Siberia in the Seventeenth Century. The
Tungus. The Yakut nation of the Lena. The conquest of Central
Siberia. Yakuts and Tungus under Russian rule. North-eastern Siberia:
Eskimos, Chukchis and Yukagirs. The Russian conquest of North-eastern
Siberia begins -- 4. The Mongolian and Chinese Frontier in the
Seventeenth Century. Lake Baikal and the Buryat Mongols. The Russian
conquest of the western Buryats. Mongolia and Manchuria in the
seventeenth century. The eastern Buryats and Mongols between Russia
and China. The Russians reach the Amur. The Russo-Chinese border,
1689 -- 5. Russia's North Asian Colony. The conquest of Siberia in
Russian history. Russian administrators and merchants. Russian
peasants and industrial serfs -- 6. The Eighteenth Century. The
Siberia-Urals steppe frontier. The Tatars of Western Siberia. The
Altai-Sayan borderlands of Mongolia. Dzungaria. Russo-Chinese
confrontation in the Altai -- 7. Expansion in the North Pacific.
Kamchatka and the Russian conquest. Russian voyages of discovery.
Itelmens and Ainus under the Russian yoke. The Koraks and Chukchis
under attack. The Aleutian Islands and Alaska -- 8. Siberia in the
Russian Empire: The Nineteenth Century. Russian religious and
administrative policies. The Siberian natives in decline. The Yakuts,
1700-1907. The Buryat Mongols, 1700-1907. Northern and Eastern
Siberia: movements of peoples. South-western Siberia and the Altai,
1800-1860. Russian colonisation and Altai nationalism -- 9. Colonial
Settlers in Siberia: The Nineteenth Century. The opening of Siberia
to mass settlement. Exiles and political prisoners in Siberia. The
Russians of Siberia -- 10. The Far East in the Nineteenth Century.
Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. The Amur borderlands of Manchuria.
The indigenous peoples of the Amur and Sakhalin. The Nivkh, Ulchi and
other peoples of the lower Amur. The Udeghes and Nanais. Russian
colonisation of the Far East. The effects of Russian and Chinese
colonisation on the native peoples. The 'yellow peoples' in the
Russian Far East. China's Mongolian borderlands. Russia and Tuva up
to 1914 -- 11. The Russian Revolution and Civil War in Siberia.
Political forces in Siberia, 1917-1918. Civil War and foreign
intervention in Siberia, 1918-1925 -- 12. The Native Peoples,
1917-1929. The peoples of Northern Siberia. The Ugrians and Samoyeds.
The Tungus. Yakutia. The Far North-east. The peoples of the Far
North-east. The peoples of the Amur-Ussuri region. The
Buryat-Mongols. The Altai-Sayan peoples. Tuva and Mongolia. The
Leninist empire -- 13. Soviet Siberia in the 1930s. National autonomy
and 'enlightenment'. Anti-shamanist measures. Collectivisation in
Siberia. Collectivisation of Siberian native communities. The clan
system and nomadism under attack. The Turkic peoples of Western
Siberia. The Selkups and Kets. The Khanty and Mansi peoples. The
Nenets, Nganasans and Dolgans. The Ewenki Tungus. Yakutia in the
1930s -- 14. Soviet Russia's Far East in the 1930s. International and
internal politics. The Soviet Chinese and Koreans. Jews in the Soviet
Far East. Native peoples of the lower Amur and Sakhalin. The
Buryat-Mongols, 1930-1940. Ewens and Koraks. Chukchis and Eskimos.
The Kolyma Trust and Dalstroy. Dalstroy and the indigenous population
-- 15. Soviet Siberia After 1941. The Second World War and the
Siberian peoples. The war in the Far East. Soviet Russian expansion
in Inner Asia. The Chinese frontier. Russian industrial development
in Siberia -- 16. The Native Peoples of Siberia After 1945. The Far
North-east. The peoples of the lower Amur. Tuva in the Soviet Union.
Buryatia. The Yakuts. The Ewens and Ewenkis. The western Arctic. The
Khanty-Mansi National Region -- 17. Siberia in the 1980s. Russian
Siberia. Native Siberia under Soviet nationalities policy. National
cultures at risk. A native rights movement? Reconstruction and
indigenous Siberia.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 957.004 -- General history of Asia Siberia (Asiatic Russia)
LCC Number: DK758

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xx, 455 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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