Russia in Asia : imaginations, interactions, and realities /: imaginations, interactions, and realities. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jane F. Hacking, Jeffrey S. Hardy, and Matthew P. Romaniello.
• Editors: Hacking, Jane F; Hardy, Jeffrey S, 1978-; Romaniello, Matthew P
• Contents: Introduction: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities Jane F. Hacking, Jeffrey S. Hardy, and Matthew P. Romaniello Part I: Imaginations 1. "These Great Plains of Russia Were Once the Bottom of the Sea": Peter Simon Pallas, Siberian Geohistory, and Empire Ryan Tucker Jones 2. The View of the Golden Mountains: The Altai and the Historical Resilience of Resource Imagination Chechesh Kudachinova 3. Imaginary Travel to Imaginary Constantinople: A Painted Panorama, Periodical Press, and the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829) Alina Novik 4. Chinese Roads in the Russian Imagination and in Reality: The 1870s as a Decade of Discovery Ilya Vinkovetsky Part II: Interactions 5. Captivity and Empire: Central Asia in Nineteenth-Century Russian Captivity Narratives Yuan Gao 6. Imperial Dreams and the Russo-Japanese War: The Diary of Field Chaplain Mitrofan Srebrianski Xenia Srebrianski Harwell 7. Bad Medicine: Ritual, Sacrifice, and the Birth of Soviet Sakha Literature Naomi Caffee 8. Heroism or Colonialism: China and the Soviet Imagination of Manchuria in Port Arthur Zhen Zhang Part III: Realities 9. Welfare and Work: Reintegrating "Invalids" into Soviet Kyrgyzstan after the Great Patriotic War Michael J. Corsi 10. Urbanization, Language Vitality, and Well-Being in Russian Eurasia Lenore A. Grenoble 11. Evolving Language Contact and Multilingualism in Northeastern Russia Jessica Kantarovich Selected Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.4824705; Russia -- Relations -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Relations -- Russia; Soviet Union -- Relations -- Asia, Central; Asia, Central -- Relations -- Soviet Union; Russia -- Colonies -- Asia; Asia, Central -- Colonization; Russians -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Russians -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Russia -- Civilization; Asia, Central -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000090994; 9781000090956; 9781000090970; 9780429341298
• Related ISBNs: 9780367357115
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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