A History of the Peoples of Siberia Russia's North Asian Colony 15811990 [Paperback]

The first ethnohistory of Siberia in English, analysing ethnographic and linguistic features of the native peoples.Comparing the Siberian experience with that of Indians and Eskimos in North America, this first substantive post-Glasnost account covers the early history of Siberia after the Russian conquest to collectivization and conscription during World War II and the 1980s movement for native rights.Comparing the Siberian experience with that of Indians and Eskimos in North America, this first substantive post-Glasnost account covers the early history of Siberia after the Russian conquest to collectivization and conscription during World War II and the 1980s movement for native rights.This is the first ethnohistory of Siberia to appear in English, and presents to an anglophone audience a vast corpus of previously inaccessible ethnographic and linguistic material. It covers from the early history of Siberia after the Russian conquest to collectivization and conscription during World War II and to the 1980s movement ror native rights. In this, the first substantive post-Glasnost account to appear, James Forsyth compares the Siberian experience with that of Indians and Eskimos in North America.List of illustrations; List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on spellings and terms; 1. Siberia 'discovered'; 2. Siberia invaded: the seventeenth century; 3. Central and north-east Siberia in the seventeenth century; 4. The Mongolian and Chinese frontier in the seventeenth century; 5. Russia's north Asian colony; 6. The eighteenth century; 7. Expansion in the north Pacific; 8. Siberia in the Russian empire: the nineteenth century; 9. Colonial settlers in Siberia: the nineteenth century; 10. The Far East in the nineteenth century; 11. The Russian Revolution and civil war in Siberia; 12. The native peoples, 19171929; 13. Soviet Siberia in the 1930s; 14. Soviet Russia's Far East in the 1930s; 15. Soviet Siberia after 1941; 16. The native peoples of Siberia after 19lcO