Eastern destiny : Russia in Asia and the North Pacific
1. Geography: A Colossal and Chilling Expanse -- 2. Early Russian Experiences with Asia and Asians -- 3. Ivan IV and Muscovite Drang nach Osten -- 4. Initial Sino-Muscovite Contacts -- 5. Toward a Delineated Sino-Muscovite Border -- 6. The Kiakhta System -- 7. Japan, Kamchatka, and the Kurils -- 8. "Normalization" of Russo-Japanese Relations -- 9. To the Farthest East: The Rim of the North Pacific -- 10. Baranov, California, and Hawaii -- 11. Demise of the Russian American Company and Sale of Alaska -- 12. Living with the Kiakhta System
History (form)
xvii, 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780275955663, 9780275956486, 9780275956479, 9780132359047, 0275955664, 0275956482, 0275956474, 0132359049
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1. Geography: A Colossal and Chilling Expanse
2. Early Russian Experiences with Asia and Asians
3. Ivan IV and Muscovite Drang nach Osten
4. Initial Sino-Muscovite Contacts
5. Toward a Delineated Sino-Muscovite Border
6. The Kiakhta System
7. Japan, Kamchatka, and the Kurils
8. "Normalization" of Russo-Japanese Relations
9. To the Farthest East: The Rim of the North Pacific
10. Baranov, California, and Hawaii
11. Demise of the Russian American Company and Sale of Alaska
12. Living with the Kiakhta System
13. A New Russo-Chinese Border in the Far East
14. New Borders for Russia in Central Asia
15. Russian Railroads in Asia: Arteries of Empire
16. Russia, Korea, and the Sino-Japanese War
17. Russia, Manchuria, and the Boxer Rebellion
18. Korea and the Russo-Japanese War
19. War, Revolution, and Reconquest
20. Mongolia: The First Soviet Satellite
21. Russians, the Chinese Eastern Railway, and Sinkiang