Siberia : a cultural history
Siberia is a cradle of civilizations, the birthplace of ancient Turkic empires and home to the cultures of indigenes, including peoples whose ancestors migrated to the Americas. It was a promised land to which bonded peasants could flee their cruel masters, yet also a snow-covered "white hell" across which exiles shuffled in felt shoes and chains. In Stalin's era, Siberia became synonymous with the gulag; today, it is a vast region of bustling metropolises and magnificent landscapes: a place where the humdrum, the beautiful, and the bizarre ignite the imagination
History
xx, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
9780199754175, 9780199754182, 0199754179, 0199754187
607574093
Heaven and hell
Cradle of civilizations
A frontier beyond : the Urals and Yekaterinburg
Tyumen : Dallas in Siberia
Tobolsk : from "Sodom in the taiga" to a cultural heartland
To the frozen ocean and Stalin's railway of death
Omsk and the Baraba steppe
Over the top : the northern sea route
Novosibirsk and the Trans-Siberian Railway
The Altai region and republic : mystics, mountains, and nomads
The Yenisey River : from steppes to the frozen tundra
Irkutsk : the "Paris of Siberia"
Lake Baikal : Siberia's sacred sea
The archipelago of exile : Magadan
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