Willard Sunderland: 2 books
Taming the Wild Field
Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited...
Russia's People of Empire
Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
“A fresh and lively approach to understanding how the various Russian empires have worked.” —Slavic Review
A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes and economies. For six centuries this...