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    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
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    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent Mongolian People’s Republic established a year later were supposed to represent a new model of ... Read more

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    The Russian Far East was a remarkably fluid region in the period leading up to, during, and after the Russian Revolution. The different contenders in play in the region, imagining and working toward alternative futures, comprised different national groups, including Russians, Buryat-Mongols, Koreans, and Ukrainians; different imperialist projects, including Japanese and American attempts to ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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    Nationalism, Socialism, and Development

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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