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Book SynopsisWhat were the causes, characteristics, and effects of the great flood of migration over the Ural Mountains into Siberia in the late 19th and 20th centuries? The author studies the background conditions fostering the migration and then the migration itself: its actual course; the establishment of settlements; the legal, political, and economic facto
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Note, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Illustrations, pg. xiii*Foreword: Russian and American Frontiers, pg. 1*Chapter I. The Origins of the Great Siberian Migration, pg. 13*Chapter II. The Peasant in the Homeland, pg. 36*Chapter III. Migration Policy after Emancipation, pg. 67*Chapter IV. The Migrants Enter Siberia, pg. 82*Chapter V. Kulomzin and the Committee on the Siberian Railway, pg. 107*Chapter VI. The Migrants Move by Rail, pg. 131*Chapter VII. Stolypin and Siberia, pg. 153*Chapter VIII. Migration, the Intelligentsia, and the Duma, pg. 184*Chapter IX. Migration at Flood Tide, pg. 205*Chapter X. The End of Siberian Migration, pg. 227*Chapter XI. Conclusion, pg. 239*I. Tables (11 to 18), pg. 253*II. Heads of Certain Ministries of the Russian Empire, pg. 258*III. Administrative Divisions of Asiatic Russia in 1914, pg. 260*IV. Dates of Russian Rulers, 1613-1917, pg. 262*Bibliography, pg. 266*Index, pg. 273
