Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East: Siberia and the Russian Far East

✍ Scribed by Stephen Kotkin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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?

✦ Table of Contents

RUSSIA"ASIA
Parti
Contents
About the Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Maps
Introduction: Rediscovering Russia in Asia
Notes
Part I. Overlapping Peripheries, Antagonistic Centers
Conquering the Great East: Kulomzin, Peasant Resettlement, and the Creation of Modern Siberia
Notes
Russia Finds Its Limits: Crossing Borders into Manchuria
Notes
Japan Moves North: The Japanese Occupation of Northern Sakhalin (1920s)
Notes
Part II. Siberian Identities: Autonomy, Science, and Redemption
Notes
Moscow and Siberia: Center-Periphery Relations, 1917—30
Notes
New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, Siberian City of Science
Notes
Village Prose Writers and the Question of Siberian Cultural Identity
Contemporary Siberian Regionalism
Notes
Part III. Far Eastern Identities: Settlement, Natives, and Borders
Notes
A State Within a State: The Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Notes
Nivkhi, Russians, and Others: The Politics of Indigenism on Sakhalin Island
The Russian Far East: From a Colonial to a Borderland Economy
Part IV. After Communism: Resources for Cooperation or Confrontation
Notes
Siberian Crude: Moscow, Tiumen, and Political Decentralization
Moscow, Tiumen, and Political Decentralization
Property Free-For-All: Regionalism, “Democratization,” and the Politics of Economic Control in the Kuzbas, 1989-93
Notes
Back to the Collective: Production and Consumption on a Siberian Collective Farm
Notes
Water Wars: Siberian Rivers, Central Asian Deserts, and the Structural Sources of a Policy Debate
Notes
Whose Environment? A Case Study of Forestry Policy in Russia’s Maritime Province
Notes
V. Northeast Asia: Re-emergence of a Transnational Region
Notes
Spontaneity and Direction Along the Russo-Chinese Border
Notes
“Yellow Peril” Again? The Chinese and the Russian Far East
Notes
The Emergence of Siberia and the Russian Far East as a “New Frontier” for Koreans
Notes
The Future of Northeast Asia: Southeast Asia?
Notes
Epilogue: Regionalism, Russia, and Northeast Asia: An Agenda
Selected Bibliography
Archives
Newspapers (published In Moscow unless noted)
Books, Articles, Unpublished Manuscripts
Index