TY  - BOOK
AU  - Urbansky,Sören
TI  - Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border 
T2  - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
SN  - 9780691181684
AV  - DS740.5.R8 U73 2020
U1  - 957/.7 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Borderlands
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Russia
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Agriculture (Chinese mythology)
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Amur River
KW  - Ataman
KW  - Beijing
KW  - Bolsheviks
KW  - Border Region
KW  - Border area
KW  - Border control
KW  - Border guard
KW  - Border trade
KW  - Border zone
KW  - Border
KW  - Bureaucrat
KW  - Buryats
KW  - Central Authority
KW  - China–Russia border
KW  - Civilian
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Commodity
KW  - Communist Party of China
KW  - Communist state
KW  - Contraband
KW  - Cossacks
KW  - Dissolution of the Soviet Union
KW  - Economic and Social Research Council
KW  - Far Eastern Republic
KW  - German Academic Exchange Service
KW  - Han Chinese
KW  - Heidelberg University
KW  - Heihe
KW  - Heilongjiang
KW  - Herder
KW  - Immigration
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Inner Asia
KW  - Inner Mongolia
KW  - Irkutsk
KW  - Konstanz
KW  - Lake Baikal
KW  - Livestock
KW  - Looting
KW  - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
KW  - Manchukuo
KW  - Manchuria
KW  - Manzhouli
KW  - Metropole
KW  - Mongolia
KW  - Mongolian People's Republic
KW  - Mongols
KW  - Nation state
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Northeast China
KW  - Pasture
KW  - Peasant
KW  - People's Liberation Army
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Qing dynasty
KW  - Qiqihar
KW  - Rapprochement
KW  - Refugee
KW  - Russian Armed Forces
KW  - Russian Civil War
KW  - Russian Empire
KW  - Russian Far East
KW  - Russian Revolution
KW  - Russian diaspora
KW  - Russian language
KW  - Russians
KW  - Russo-Japanese War
KW  - Satellite state
KW  - Self-determination
KW  - Siberia
KW  - Sinicization
KW  - Sino-Soviet conflict (1929)
KW  - Sino-Soviet relations
KW  - Sino-Soviet split
KW  - Sinophobia
KW  - Smuggling
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Soviet Border Troops
KW  - Soviet people
KW  - Stalinism
KW  - Suifenhe
KW  - Tax
KW  - Theft
KW  - Trading post
KW  - Train station
KW  - Transbaikal Military District
KW  - Transbaikal
KW  - Transliteration
KW  - Treaty of Nerchinsk
KW  - Ulaanbaatar
KW  - Ussuri River
KW  - World War I
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Translation, Romanization, and Dates --; Introduction --; 1. Cossacks and Bannermen on the Argun Frontier --; 2. Railroads, Germs, and Gold --; 3. Revolutions without Borders --; 4. The Soviet State at the Border --; 5. An Open Steppe under Lock and Key --; 6. Staging Friendship at the Barbed-Wire Fence --; 7. Invisible Enemies across the Frozen River --; 8. Watermelons and Abandoned Watchtowers --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Illustration Credits --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by exploring the demarcation’s remarkable transformation—from a vaguely marked frontier in the seventeenth century to its twentieth-century incarnation as a tightly patrolled barrier girded by watchtowers, barbed wire, and border guards. Through the perspectives of locals, including railroad employees, herdsmen, and smugglers from both sides, Sören Urbansky explores the daily life of communities and their entanglements with transnational and global flows of people, commodities, and ideas. Urbansky challenges top-down interpretations by stressing the significance of the local population in supporting, and undermining, border making.Because Russian, Chinese, and native worlds are intricately interwoven, national separations largely remained invisible at the border between the two largest Eurasian empires. This overlapping and mingling came to an end only when the border gained geopolitical significance during the twentieth century. Relying on a wealth of sources culled from little-known archives from across Eurasia, Urbansky demonstrates how states succeeded in suppressing traditional borderland cultures by cutting kin, cultural, economic, and religious connections across the state perimeter, through laws, physical force, deportation, reeducation, forced assimilation, and propaganda.Beyond the Steppe Frontier sheds critical new light on a pivotal geographical periphery and expands our understanding of how borders are determined
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195445?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691195445
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691195445/original
ER  -