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RUSSIAN SETTLEMENT IN THE NORTH

by Terence Armstrong

Published by Cambridge University Press. 1965

Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. Grey cloth with blue title label, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Scott Polar Research Institute Special Publication Number 3.

Ex-lib. with some usual stamps and markings. Wrapper has corners of front flap cut off. Some edge-creasing, chipping and browning.

Stock no. 2139441

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Contents

  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I
  • BACKGROUND AND BEGINNINGS
  • 1 The environment
  • 2 The coming of the Russians
  • European Russia
  • Siberia
  • Alaska
  • North Siberian travel in the seventeenth century
  • PART II
  • SETTLEMENT UNDER THE TSARS
  • 3 Consolidation: the numbers of settlers
  • Kol'skiy Poluostrov
  • The Pechora region
  • Islands of the European north
  • The Ob' valley
  • The Yenisey valley
  • The Lena valley
  • The Kolyma valley and Chukotka
  • The Okhotsk Sea littoral and Kamchatka
  • Russian America
  • 4 Consolidation: the character of settlement
  • Hunters and traders
  • Servants of the state
  • Peasants
  • Exiles and convicts
  • Religious groups
  • Miners
  • General character of Russians in northern Siberia
  • Life in northern Siberia in the nineteenth century
  • 5 Government policy
  • Foreign influences
  • 6 Relations with the natives
  • PART III
  • SETTLEMENT SINCE 1917
  • 7 The number of settlers
  • 8 The character of the settlement
  • Miners
  • Transport workers
  • Farmers, fishers and lumbermen
  • Other workers
  • Convicts and exiles
  • 9 Government policy
  • Foreign influences
  • 10 Relations with the native
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDICES
  • GLOSSARY OF RUSSIAN TERMS USED IN THE TEXT
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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