Colonizing Russia's Promised Land : Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe

• Tác giả: Aileen Friesen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1487534554
• Thông tin xuất bản: London : University of Toronto Press, 2020.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource : , illustrations, map
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 372346
• Chủ đề: 1. Église et État--Histoire--19e siecle--Kazakhstan; 2. Église et État--Histoire--19e siecle--Russie; 3. Church and state; 4. Colonization; 5. HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

Tóm tắt

"The movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. Colonizing Russia's Promised Land examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. Russian state officials aspired to lay claim to land that was politically under their authority, but remained culturally unfamiliar. By exploring the formation and evolution of Omsk diocese--a settlement mission--Colonizing Russia's Promised Land reveals how the migration of settlers expanded the role of Orthodoxy as a cultural force in transforming Russia's imperial periphery by "russifying" the land and marginalizing the Indigenous Kazakh population."-- Provided by publisher.