دانلود کتاب The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians

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Contents
Prologue
Part One. The Beginnings
1 The Fury of God
2 “Great Khan of All the People Living in Felt Tents”
3 Batu’s Winter War
4 On Kulikovo Field
Part Two. The Russians Take Siberia
5 Anika and His Sons
6 Ermak’s “Conquest”
7 The Siberians
8 To the Great Ocean
9 Searching for Grain
10 Discovering a Passage Between Two Continents
11 Life on the Siberian Frontier
Part Three. The Russians Explore Their Conquest
12 The Demidovs, Frontier Iron, and Tsar Peter
13 Bering’s First Voyage
14 The Great Northern Expedition
15 The Russians “Discover” America
16 The “Russian Columbus”
17 At the Threshold of a New Era
Part Four. The Largest Part of the Russian Empire
18 Governor- General Speranskii
19 Katorga and Ssylka
20 Two Princesses
21 Dostoevskii in the “House of the Dead”
22 The Search for Gold
23 Muravëv Takes the Amur
24 Kerman’s Journey
25 The “Politicals”
26 “By Administrative Process ”
27 Lenin in Exile
28 An Iron Road Across Asia
29 Building the World’s Longest Railroad
30 Amur River Boats and Russia’s Manchurian Connection
31 Lake Baikal
32 “A Small Victorious War”
33 The Immigrants
34 Siberia’s Wild East
35 The Lena Goldfields Massacre
36 “I Hate the Autocracy So Much ”
37 Before the Storm
38 War and Revolution
Part Five. Red Siberia
39 Czech Legion
40 “Pitch-forked into the Melee ”
41 Siberia’s Supreme Ruler
42 The Bolsheviks Take Siberia
43 Jack Scott and Siberia’s Magnetic Mountain
44 Edible Fossils
45 Socialist Reconstruction
46 The Great Relocation
Part Six. Siberia ’s Modem Age
47 Stalin’s Last Years
48 Virgin Lands
49 Bratsk Power Station
50 The BAM
51 Riches of Samotlor and Urengoi
52 Siberia’s Soviet Heritage
Acknowledgments
Key to Abbreviations
Notes
Works and Sources Cited
Index