From Conquest to Deportation

Download or read book From Conquest to Deportation written by Jeronim Perović and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is about a region on the fringes of empire, which neither tsarist Russia, nor the Soviet Union, nor in fact the Russian Federation, ever really managed to control. Starting with the nineteenth century, it analyzes the state's various strategies to establish its rule over populations highly resilient to change imposed from outside, who frequently resorted to arms to resist interference in their religious practices and beliefs, traditional customs, and ways of life.