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 constructin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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 Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. Russian state officials aspired to lay claim to land that was politically under their authority, but remained culturally unfamiliar. By exploring the formation and evolution of Omsk diocese--a settlement mission--Colonizing Russia's Promised Land reveals how the migration of settlers expanded the role of Orthodoxy as a cultural force in transforming Russia's imperial periphery by "russifying" the land and marginalizing the Indigenous Kazakh population."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 224 pages) ) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1442624736 9781442624740 1442624744 9781442637191 1442637196 1487531559 9781487531553 9781442624733 9781487534554 1487534558 |