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008			210202s2020 njuab b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780691181684 (hbk.)
020			_a0691181683 (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1099683377
050			_aDS740.5.R8 _bU73 2020
100	1		_aUrbansky, Soren.
245	1	0	_aBeyond the steppe frontier : _ba history of the Sino-Russian border / _cSören Urbansky.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2020]
300			_axiii, 367 p. : _bill., maps.
490	1		_aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Over two thousand miles long, the boundary between Russia and China is the world's longest land border. Though sometimes considered a backwater, the border region was always of critical geopolitical importance and has a fascinating history. Not only did this border divide the two largest Eurasian empires, it was also the place where European and Asian civilizations met, where nomads and settled peoples mingled, where the imperial interests of Russia, China, and Japan clashed, and where both conflicts and gestures of friendship between the world's largest Communist regimes were staged. This book is a history of this border from the late nineteenth century until the fall of the Soviet Union. The border has undergone a remarkable transformation since the late nineteenth century. As late as the 1920s, Russian, Chinese, and native worlds were intricately interwoven in the region, and the frontier was barely regulated. By the end of the twentieth century, however, the two countries had succeeded in cutting kin, cultural, economic, and religious connections between the two sides through deportation, forced assimilation, and nationalist propaganda campaigns. Only with the collapse of the Soviet Union would China and Russia reopen the border, but even today the line between countries demarcates two distinct regions with remarkably different worldviews and cultures. Drawing on sources in seven languages, including extensive archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Urbansky stresses the significant role of the local population in supporting, or more often undermining, the two states' border-making efforts"--
650		4	_aBorderlands _zChina _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aBorderlands _zRussia _xHistory.
650		4	_aBorderlands _zSoviet Union _xHistory.
651		4	_aChina _xBoundaries _zRussia.
651		4	_aRussia _xBoundaries _zChina.
651		4	_aChina _xBoundaries _zSoviet Union.
651		4	_aSoviet Union _xBoundaries _zChina.
830		0	_aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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