The Russian Far East : a history / John J. Stephan.
1994
DK771.D3 S74 1994
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Title
The Russian Far East : a history / John J. Stephan.
Author
ISBN
0804723117 (alk.)
9780804723114 (alk.)
0804727015
9780804727013
9780804723114 (alk.)
0804727015
9780804727013
Imprint
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
DK771.D3 S74 1994
System Control No.
(OCoLC)29359290
Summary
Wedged between China, Korea, Japan, and the United States, the Russian Far East has for centuries been a meeting ground for Eurasian and American peoples and cultures. Conventionally regarded as a perimeter, it is in fact a collage of overlapping borderlands with a distinct historical identity. Based on a quarter-century of research by a leading authority on the area, this is a monumental survey of Pacific Siberia 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. 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.
The Russian Far East today reverberates with autonomist rhetoric, but if the region is no longer an appanage, it is still far short of independence. For the time being, the robust tradition of cosmopolitanism is reinventing itself under the banner of capitalism. Reexamining twentieth-century history through a Far Eastern prism, the book offers fresh and often provocative perspectives on imperial rivalries, colonialism, revolution, civil war, and utopianism gone awry in Northeast Asia.
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.
The Russian Far East today reverberates with autonomist rhetoric, but if the region is no longer an appanage, it is still far short of independence. For the time being, the robust tradition of cosmopolitanism is reinventing itself under the banner of capitalism. Reexamining twentieth-century history through a Far Eastern prism, the book offers fresh and often provocative perspectives on imperial rivalries, colonialism, revolution, civil war, and utopianism gone awry in Northeast Asia.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-460) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Geography and Prehistory
2. The Chinese Millennium
3. Russian Entree
4. Amur Setback
5. Pacific Window
6. Return to the Amur
7. Toward a Far Eastern Viceroyalty
8. Patterns of Settlement
9. East Asian Communities
10. International Emporium
11. Stirrings of a Regional Consciousness
12. Rumblings
13. Revolution
14. Civil War
15. Intervention
16. The Far Eastern Republic
17. Anomalous Enclave
18. The Far Eastern Cohort
19. Red-Bannered Satraps
20. Building Socialism on the Pacific
21. Center vs. Periphery
22. "Cleansing" Dalkrai
23. Kolyma
24. War Without a Front
25. A Front Without War
26. Khrushchevian Interlude
27. The Era of Stagnation
28. Frontier Ethos
Conclusion: Stormy Activity in a Time of Troubles
App. A. Administrative Chronology of the Far East
App. B. Population of the Far East
App. C. Senior Russian Officials in the Far East, 1822-1922.
2. The Chinese Millennium
3. Russian Entree
4. Amur Setback
5. Pacific Window
6. Return to the Amur
7. Toward a Far Eastern Viceroyalty
8. Patterns of Settlement
9. East Asian Communities
10. International Emporium
11. Stirrings of a Regional Consciousness
12. Rumblings
13. Revolution
14. Civil War
15. Intervention
16. The Far Eastern Republic
17. Anomalous Enclave
18. The Far Eastern Cohort
19. Red-Bannered Satraps
20. Building Socialism on the Pacific
21. Center vs. Periphery
22. "Cleansing" Dalkrai
23. Kolyma
24. War Without a Front
25. A Front Without War
26. Khrushchevian Interlude
27. The Era of Stagnation
28. Frontier Ethos
Conclusion: Stormy Activity in a Time of Troubles
App. A. Administrative Chronology of the Far East
App. B. Population of the Far East
App. C. Senior Russian Officials in the Far East, 1822-1922.
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