History of Siberia

Alan Wood, at the time of the first publication, was Lecturer in Russian History at Lancaster University, Convenor of the British Universities Siberian Studies Seminar and the founding editor of the journal SIBIRICA.

Review of the first publication:‘This volume has a number of strengths. The British, Canadian, American and Soviet contributors include senior figures in the field of Siberian studies. Participation of a Novosibirsk historian marks an important step toward further collaborative endeavours with Siberian colleagues. As in any collective work, the style of each chapter varies; none the less the contributions are for the most part well researched, cogently written and meticulously documented.’— John J. Stephan, European History Quarterly

• 1. Introduction: Siberia’s role in Russian history 2. the administrative apparatus of the Russian colony in Siberia and Northern Asia, 1581–1700 3. Subjugation and settlement in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Siberia 4. Opening up Siberia: Russia’s ‘window on the East’ 5. The Siberian native peoples before and after the Russian conquest 6. Tsarist Russia in colonial America: critical constraints 7. Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia 8. Migration, settlement and the rural economy of Siberia, 1861–1914 9. Siberia in revolution and civil war, 1917–1921 Afterword: Siberia in the twentieth century