Hartley, Janet (2008) Gizhiga: military presence and social encounters in Russia's wild east. Slavonic and East European Review, 86 (4). pp. 665-684. ISSN 0037-6795
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This is a case study of the remote garrison of Gizhiga, in the far east of Siberia, within the context of the historiography of the Russian frontier. Gizhiga was constructed for strategic reasons to secure the land and sea routes between the ports of Okhotsk and Kamchatka. Although some social and economic interaction took place between soldiers and the indigenous population, Gizhiga never flourished. Indeed, when the fishing failed then the population faced starvation. Gizhiga demonstrates the amount the government was prepared to pay to maintain remote, uneconomic, military outposts as part of the defence of the empire through `lines' of fortresses.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Journals/seer.... |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 MHRA |
| Divisions: | International History |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DK Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2011 10:05 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32881 |
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