List of illustrations ........................................ x
List of contributors ........................................ xi
Preface ................................................... xiii
Archives and abbreviations .................................. xv
Russian colonizations: an introduction ....................... 1
NICHOLAS B. BREYFOGLE, ABBY SCHRÖDER, AND WILLARD SUNDERLAND
PART I Muscovy, expansion, and the limits of migration ........ 19
1 Claiming Siberia: colonial possession and property holding
in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries ........... 21
VALERIE KIVELSON
2 Containment vs. colonization: Muscovite approaches
to settling the steppe ...................................... 41
BRIAN J. BOECK
3 Grant, settle, negotiate: military servitors in the
Middle Volga region ......................................... 61
MATTHEW P. ROMANIELLO
PART II Colonization on the Imperial Russian frontier ......... 79
4 Agriculture and the environment on the steppes in the
nineteenth century .......................................... 81
DAVID MOON
5 The "ethic of empire" on the Siberian borderland: the
peculiar case of the "rock people," 1791-1878 .............. 106
ANDREI A. ZNAMENSKI
6 Resettling people, unsettling the empire: migration and
the challenge of governance, 1861-1917 ..................... 128
CHARLES STEINWEDEL
7 Progress or peril: migrants and locals in Russian
Tashkent, 1906-14 .......................................... 148
JEFF SAHADEO
PART III Population politics and the Soviet experiment ....... 167
8 Acclimatization, the shifting science of settlement ........ 169
CASSANDRA CAVANAUGH
9 The aesthetic of Stalinist planning and the world of the
special villages ........................................... 189
LYNNE VIOLA
10 "Those who hurry to the Far East": readers, dreamers,
and volunteers ............................................. 213
ELENA SHULMAN
11 The "planet of one hundred languages": ethnic relations
and Soviet identity in the Virgin Lands .................... 238
MICHAELA POHL
PART IV Conclusions .......................................... 263
12 Colonizing Eurasia ......................................... 265
ALFRED J. RIEBER
Glossary ................................................... 280
Index ...................................................... 281
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