Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening heart of darkness and a fabulous land of plenty; the 'House of the Dead' and the realm of utter freedom; a frozen wasteland and a colourful frontier; a dumping ground for Russia's rejects and the last refuge of its lost innocence. The contributors to Between Heaven and Hell examine the origin, nature, and implications of these images from historical, literary, geographical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives. They create a striking, fascinating picture of this enormous and mysterious land.
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Siberia has not been a single administrative unit since the 1820s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
istorii missionerskikh shkol, bez romantiki, irkutskago zhitelia, narodov severa, reading hut, village prose, sacred topography, speaking pidgin, sobranie sochinenii, partisan movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
European Russia, New York, Dersu Uzala, Valentin Rasputin, Eastern Siberia, Soviet Union, Nikolai Polevoi, Great Russian, United States, Alan Wood, Istoriia Sibiri, Moskovskii Telegraf, Nikolai Shchukin, Ivan Kalashnikov, Red Army, Varlam Shalamov, Vasilii Shukshin, World War, Anton Chekhov, Educational Policies, Oxford University Press, Russian East, Turukhanskom Severe, Unknown Chekhov, Yuri Slezkine New!
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istorii missionerskikh shkol, bez romantiki, irkutskago zhitelia, narodov severa, reading hut, village prose, sacred topography, speaking pidgin, sobranie sochinenii, partisan movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
European Russia, New York, Dersu Uzala, Valentin Rasputin, Eastern Siberia, Soviet Union, Nikolai Polevoi, Great Russian, United States, Alan Wood, Istoriia Sibiri, Moskovskii Telegraf, Nikolai Shchukin, Ivan Kalashnikov, Red Army, Varlam Shalamov, Vasilii Shukshin, World War, Anton Chekhov, Educational Policies, Oxford University Press, Russian East, Turukhanskom Severe, Unknown Chekhov, Yuri Slezkine New!
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- The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov on 4 pages
- The Development of Siberia: People and Resources by Alan Wood on page 29, page 43, and page 92
- The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn on page 151, page 166, and page 256
- The Soviet Novel, Third Edition: History as Ritual by Katerina Clark on page 12, page 255, and page 271
- Fur Trade by Paul C. Phillips in Front Matter, page 92, and page 93
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- Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917 (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies) by Daniel R. Brower on 4 pages
- In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas by Bruce Grant on 4 pages
- At the Margins of Orthodoxy: Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, 1827-1905 by Paul W. Werth on page 41, and page 138
- Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) by Mark Bassin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North by Yuri Slezkine on page 73, and Back Matter
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