Colonizing Russia's Promised Land Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe

The movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. Colonizing Russia's Promised Land examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russ...

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Hoofdauteur: Friesen, Aileen (auth)
Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: University of Toronto Press 2020
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