Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Russian Measurements -- Cast of Major Characters -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. A Weak and Distant Domain -- CHAPTER TWO. An Appetite for Asia -- CHAPTER THREE. Siberia Is for Russia -- CHAPTER FOUR. Divergent Visions -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Vital Nerve and the Tail End -- CHAPTER SIX. Bureaucracy Prolix -- CHAPTER SEVEN. A State within a State -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Witte and the Taming of the Wild East -- CHAPTER NINE. Monument to Bungling -- CHAPTER TEN. The Limits of Railroad Colonization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index
In Road to Power Steven G. Marks tells the story of one of the most difficult and expensive peaceful undertakings in modern history and the most ambitious initiative of the last two Russian tsars—the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the accompanying colonization of the immense Asian territories of the Russian empire
Road to Power : The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917
2019
1 Online-Ressource (272 p)
12 b&w illustrations, 3 maps
Buch
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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