At the Edge of Empire The Terek Cossacks and the North by Thomas Barrett

By Thomas Barrett

At the sting of Empire examines the background of the Cossack frontier settlements within the North Caucasus throughout the eighteenth and 19th centuries. the categorical concentration is the Terek Cossacks, frontier settlers alongside the Terek river who turned servants of the Russian kingdom, warriors, and infrequently infantrymen for (and deserters from) the Russian imperial armies. Barrett reconsiders Cossack historical past with an eye fixed for its relation to the regulations and truth of pre-Soviet Russian imperialism. the wealthy historiography of the yank frontier informs this re-evaluation—the Cossack interplay with local peoples and the formation of a distinct frontier society heavily reflect the modern borderland settlements within the American West. yet Barrett offers Russian colonization as a fluid blending of cultures instead of a cut-and dried army conquest, because it has formerly been offered in ideology-laden histories of the Soviet Union. This opens up new ways that to contemplate the myths and perceptions of ancient Russian nationalism and its relation to kingdom formation and ethnic id within the Caucasus and post-Soviet Russia today.

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