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Russian Far Eastby Susan F. Davis
Routledge 2002; US$ 160.00A comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Russian Far East (RFE) offering an argument about federal relations and power in the state. It is the only easily available, single volume book to examine the RFE in such depth. more...
Imperial Visionsby Mark Bassin; Alan R. H. Baker; Richard Dennis; Deryck Holdworth
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 55.00Written from the perspective of both historical geography and intellectual history, Imperial Visions demonstrates the fundamental importance of geographical imagination in the mentalité of imperial Russia. The work offers a truly novel perspective on the complex and ambivalent ideological relationship between Russian nationalism, geographical identity, and imperial expansion. more...
Man Is Wolf to Manby Janusz Bardach
University of California Press 1999; US$ 12.95Chronicles the author's life during his stay at the Kolyma prison camp in Siberia. FROM THE BOOK:"The pit I was ordered to dig had the precise dimensions of a casket. The NKVD officer carefully designed it. He measured my size with a stick, made lines on the forest floor, and told me to dig. He wanted to make sure I'd fit well inside." more...
In Siberiaby Colin Thubron
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, by train, boat, car, and on foot, Colin Thubron traversed this vast territory, talking to everyone he encountered about the state of the beauty, whose natural resources have been savagely exploited for decades; a terrain tainted by nuclear waste but filled with citizens who both welcomed him and fed him—despite their own tragic poverty. From Mongoloia to the Artic Circle, from Rasputin's village in the west through tundra, taiga, mountains, lakes, rivers, and finally to a derelict Jewish community in the country's far eastern reaches, Colin Thubron penetrates... more...
Soul Huntersby Rane Willerslev
University of California Press 2007; US$ 19.96This is an insightful, highly original ethnographic interpretation of the hunting life of the Yukaghirs, a little-known group of indigenous people in the Upper Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia. Basing his study on firsthand experience with Yukaghir hunters, Rane Willerslev focuses on the practical implications of living in a "hall-of-mirrors" world?one inhabited by humans, animals, and spirits, all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another. In this world human beings inhabit a betwixt-and-between state in which their souls are both substance and nonsubstance, both body and soul, both their own individual selves and reincarnated others. Hunters are thus both human and the animals they imitate, which forces them... more...
Siberian Villageby Bella Bychkova Jordan; Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 40.00A fascinating portrait of the history and landscape of this remote settlement. more...
The History of Siberiaby Igor V Naumov
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 44.95Siberia has had an interesting history, quite distinct from that of Russia. Providing a comprehensive history of Siberia from the earliest times to the present, this book covers every period of Siberia's history in an accessible way. more...
Brothers on the Bashkausby Eugene Buchanan
Fulcrum Publishing 2007; US$ 15.95From rafts made from old germ warfare suits to lifejackets stitched together from soccer balls and wine bladders, river running in the former Soviet Union has evolved much like Australian wildlife--completely free of outside influences. Brothers on the Bashkaus follows the exploits of one of the first groups of Westerners to experience this foreign style of rafting on a white-knuckled, 26-day trip down the Bashkaus River, one of the hardest whitewater runs in all Siberia. more...
Exile, Murder and Madness in Siberia, 1823-61by Andrew A. Gentes
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2010; US$ 85.00Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of tsarist Siberian exile. more...
Living with Koryak Traditionsby Alexander D King
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 35.00An examination of the globalization of culture and the invention of tradition, and what it means to modern Koryak people living in post-Soviet Siberia. more...









