Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe

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Summary: How Russia became an Empire
Review: The great nineteenth-century historian Kliuchevsky observed that colonization was the basic fact of Russian history. In "Taming the Wild Field," Willard Sunderland has offered readers one of the best books on this crucial aspect of Russia's past. Based on years of research--much of it in overlooked Russian archives--rich with insight, and written with rare elegance, "Taming the Wild Field" should be read by everyone interested in the "big questions" of Russian history.