During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks, who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of…
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of …
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of …
Machine generated contents note: [1] The Sociology of the Frontier, or Why Peace Was -- Impossible / 7 -- Social and Political Organization in the Steppe -- Raiding and Warfare -- Captives and Slaves -- Trade and Economy -- A Khan, or a Search for Central Authority -- Religion -…
A comprehensive history of the transformation of Russia's southern steppes from border territories to Empire.
