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Book Siberia and the Soviet Far East

Download or read book Siberia and the Soviet Far East written by Abraham Resnick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there remain relatively few areas of the planet Earth where man rarely takes a step, casts an eye, or disturbs the natural environment, but most of Siberia is like that. For the time being, but not for long. Siberia, according to some accounts, originally meant "sleeping land". A glance eastward toward the giant land mass beyond the Ural Mountains of Northern Asia will quickly convince you that a new day is dawning there. You can see that Siberia is stirring. Its slumber is ending. The land is awakening. There is movement. Siberia has been overlooked for much too long. Now it is time to look over Siberia.

Book The Russian Far East

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  • Author : John J. Stephan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780804727013
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book The Russian Far East written by John J. Stephan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a quarter-century of research by a leading authority on the area, this is a monumental survey from prehistoric times to the present. Drawing from political, diplomatic, economic, geographical, social, and cultural evidence, the book reveals that this vast, rugged, and supposedly insular land has harbored vibrantly cosmopolitan lifestyles.

Book Siberia and the Soviet Far East

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  • Author : David Norman Collins
  • Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Siberia and the Soviet Far East written by David Norman Collins and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Siberia and the Soviet Far East

Download or read book Siberia and the Soviet Far East written by Rodger Swearingen and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays on Siberia and its past, present and future roles in the Soviet and global economies.

Book Burnt by the Sun

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  • Author : Jon K. Chang
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2018-01-31
  • ISBN : 0824876741
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Burnt by the Sun written by Jon K. Chang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Author Jon K. Chang demonstrates that the Koreans of the Russian Far East were continually viewed as a problematic and maligned nationality (ethnic community) during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. He argues that Tsarist influences and the various forms of Russian nationalism(s) and worldviews blinded the Stalinist regime from seeing the Koreans as loyal Soviet citizens. Instead, these influences portrayed them as a colonizing element (labor force) with unknown and unknowable political loyalties. One of the major findings of Chang’s research was the depth that the Soviet state was able to influence, penetrate, and control the Koreans through not only state propaganda and media, but also their selection and placement of Soviet Korean leaders, informants, and secret police within the populace. From his interviews with relatives of former Korean OGPU/NKVD (the predecessor to the KGB) officers, he learned of Korean NKVD who helped deport their own community. Given these facts, one would think the Koreans should have been considered a loyal Soviet people. But this was not the case, mainly due to how the Russian empire and, later, the Soviet state linked political loyalty with race or ethnic community. During his six years of fieldwork in Central Asia and Russia, Chang interviewed approximately sixty elderly Koreans who lived in the Russian Far East prior to their deportation in 1937. This oral history along with digital technology allowed him to piece together Soviet Korean life as well as their experiences working with and living beside Siberian natives, Chinese, Russians, and the Central Asian peoples. Chang also discovered that some two thousand Soviet Koreans remained on North Sakhalin island after the Korean deportation was carried out, working on Japanese-Soviet joint ventures extracting coal, gas, petroleum, timber, and other resources. This showed that Soviet socialism was not ideologically pure and was certainly swayed by Japanese capitalism and the monetary benefits of projects that paid the Stalinist regime hard currency for its resources.

Book The Russian Far East

Download or read book The Russian Far East written by John J. Stephan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from political, diplomatic, economic, geographical, social, and cultural evidence, the book reveals that this vast, rugged, and supposedly insular land has harbored vibrantly cosmopolitan lifestyles. For over a millennium, Chinese culture found expression in Tungus, Mongol, and Korean politics. Russian penetration in the seventeenth century eventually turned the region into a colony sustained by state subsidies, foreign enterprise, and a mosaic of Ukrainian, Estonian, Finnish, German, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese communities. Tsarist and Soviet penal policies contributed to the diversity and volatility of Far Eastern society. Regional aspirations articulated by Siberian intellectuals, disingenuously institutionalized in a Far Eastern Republic (1920-22), survived lethal bouts of economic and demographic engineering to come to life again in the post-Soviet era.

Book Russia s Frozen Frontier

Download or read book Russia s Frozen Frontier written by Alan Wood and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told from a Siberian point of view, this book seeks to dispel something of the miasma of ignorance and misconception surrounding this vast expanse the planet's land-surface, its fascinating history, its natural environment and - most importantly - the peoples who live, or have lived and died, there.

Book Russia in the Far East

Download or read book Russia in the Far East written by Leo Pasvolsky and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Siberia and the Soviet Far East

Download or read book Siberia and the Soviet Far East written by Stuart Kirby and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Siberia and the Soviet Far East

Download or read book Siberia and the Soviet Far East written by David N Collins and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rediscovering Russia in Asia

Download or read book Rediscovering Russia in Asia written by Stephen Kotkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a trans-Siberian expedition to rediscover the peoples, cultures and riches of Russia's eastern frontiers. It addresses such questions as: who are the people of the region?; have they a distinct culture?; and does the area have a future as part of the Pacific Rim?

Book Russia in the Far East

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  • Author : Leo Pasvolsky
  • Publisher : Forgotten Books
  • Release : 2015-06-12
  • ISBN : 9781330041284
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Russia in the Far East written by Leo Pasvolsky and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russia in the Far East As this book goes to press, the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament is still in session, with the question of Siberia on that part of the agenda, which the Conference has not as jet reached. The book, therefore, does not contain the actual decisions of the Conference on the Russian question. It appears likely that these decisions will be entirely within the scope of the American position with regard to the "moral trusteeship" over Russia's national interests, and there is no doubt that the deliberations at the Conference will push to the fore many aspects of the Russian situation in the Far East. It is hoped, therefore, that this book will furnish a background for a clearer understanding of this important situation. Materials on the various Russian phases of the Far Eastern question are not easily available in this country, and their interpretation is most difficult. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Siberia

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  • Author : Ian Frazier
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2010-10-12
  • ISBN : 9781429964319
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Travels in Siberia written by Ian Frazier and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals Siberia's role in history—its science, economics, and politics—with great passion and enthusiasm, ensuring that we'll never think about it in the same way again. With great empathy and epic sweep, Frazier tells the stories of Siberia's most famous exiles, from the well-known—Dostoyevsky, Lenin (twice), Stalin (numerous times)—to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses) to those who experienced unimaginable suffering in Siberian camps under the Soviet regime, forever immortalized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. Travels in Siberia is also a unique chronicle of Russia since the end of the Soviet Union, a personal account of adventures among Russian friends and acquaintances, and, above all, a unique, captivating, totally Frazierian take on what he calls the "amazingness" of Russia—a country that, for all its tragic history, somehow still manages to be funny. Travels in Siberia will undoubtedly take its place as one of the twenty-first century's indispensable contributions to the travel-writing genre.

Book The Soviet Far East

Download or read book The Soviet Far East written by Allan Rodgers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East. The region is explored in all its geographical and economic complexity. Chapters on the state of its development under Gorbachev (and his programme of investment) are supplemented by examinations of the history of its settlement, analysis of its unique environment and the threats which economic growth might pose for it, and of the region’s vital strategic significance to the Soviet Union.

Book Russia s Frozen Frontier

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  • Author : Alan Wood
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2011-05-15
  • ISBN : 1849664382
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Russia s Frozen Frontier written by Alan Wood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Wood's ambitious work is the first to address the whole span - both chronologically and thematically - of the development of Siberia, and its role in both the Russian and the global context. With a scope that reaches from Muscovy's conquest of Siberia in the 16th and 17th centuries to modern times, it explores the effects of colonial exploitation, the Revolutions of 1917 and developments during the Soviet period. Russia's Frozen Frontier is also the first book to detail the history of Siberia from the view of Siberians themselves - both Russian and native - rather than seen through the lens of Moscow or St Petersburg.

Book Spirit of the Siberian Tiger

Download or read book Spirit of the Siberian Tiger written by Дмитрий Нагишкин and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 4 folktales form the Russian Far East, translated from Russian into English.

Book The Role of Environmental NGOs  Russian Challenges  American Lessons

Download or read book The Role of Environmental NGOs Russian Challenges American Lessons written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and prepared proceedings of this workshop, highlighting the successes and difficulties faced by NGOs in Russia and the United States.