Research Catalog

Title

Beyond the steppe frontier : a history of the Sino-Russian border / Sören Urbansky.

Author

Urbansky, Sören

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]

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Details

Description

xiii, 367 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Over two thousand miles long, the boundary between Russia and China is the world's longest land border. Though sometimes considered a backwater, the border region was always of critical geopolitical importance and has a fascinating history. Not only did this border divide the two largest Eurasian empires, it was also the place where European and Asian civilizations met, where nomads and settled peoples mingled, where the imperial interests of Russia, China, and Japan clashed, and where both conflicts and gestures of friendship between the world's largest Communist regimes were staged. This book is a history of this border from the late nineteenth century until the fall of the Soviet Union. The border has undergone a remarkable transformation since the late nineteenth century. As late as the 1920s, Russian, Chinese, and native worlds were intricately interwoven in the region, and the frontier was barely regulated. By the end of the twentieth century, however, the two countries had succeeded in cutting kin, cultural, economic, and religious connections between the two sides through deportation, forced assimilation, and nationalist propaganda campaigns. Only with the collapse of the Soviet Union would China and Russia reopen the border, but even today the line between countries demarcates two distinct regions with remarkably different worldviews and cultures. Drawing on sources in seven languages, including extensive archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Urbansky stresses the significant role of the local population in supporting, or more often undermining, the two states' border-making efforts"--

Series Statement

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Borderlands > China > History > 20th century
• Borderlands > Russia > History
• Borderlands > Soviet Union > History
• HISTORY / Asia / General
• Borderlands
• Boundaries
• China > Boundaries > Russia
• Russia > Boundaries > China
• China > Boundaries > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Boundaries > China
• China
• Russia
• Soviet Union

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 20-4996

ISBN

• 9780691181684
• 0691181683
• 9780691195445 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019022974

OCLC

1099683377

Author

Urbansky, Sören, author.

Title

Beyond the steppe frontier : a history of the Sino-Russian border / Sören Urbansky.

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Urbansky, Sören. Beyond the steppe frontier. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020 9780691195445 (DLC) 2019022975

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4996