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Introduction: Steppe Building1. Frontier The Rus' Land and the Field The Wild Field and the Tsardom The Empire and the Steppe2. Enlightened Reason's Territory Reason's Process3. Bureaucratic The Vastness and the Nation The Bureaucrats and the Settlers4. Reformist The System and the Peasants The Pioneers and the Public5. Correct Colonization Colonizing Capacities and the Russian Element The Dwindling Prairie and the Growing BorderlandConclusion: Steppe Building and Steppe DestroyingNote on Archival Sources Index
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