Where Two Worlds Met : : The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771 /

Where Two Worlds Met : : The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771 / / Michael Khodarkovsky.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of Russian and Turkish s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Khodarkovsky, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2006
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 4 maps, 5 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Kalmyk and Oirat Rulers
  • Introduction
  • 1. Kalmyk Nomadic Society
  • 2. Mutual Perceptions
  • 3. The Arrival of the Kalmyks
  • 4. The Rise to Power of Ayuki Khan
  • 5. Uneasy Alliance: Ayuki Khan and Russia, 1697-1722
  • 6. Succession Crisis, 1722-1735
  • 7. Russian Colonization and the Kalmyks' Decline and Exodus
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. A Kalmyk-Muscovite Diplomatic Confrontation, 1650: A Translation
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index

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