[Blackwell History of the World 01] • A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume II by Christian, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright List of Maps Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgments Preface: The Idea of Inner Eurasia PART I INNER EURASIA IN THE AGRARIAN ERA: 1260–1850

The World in 1250 Karakorum: The Mongol Empire at its Apogee, and a Puzzle Some Rules of Mobilization in Inner Eurasia The Final Years of the Mongol Empire Notes References

2 1260–1350: Unraveling and the Building of New Polities

The Breakup of the Unified Mongol Empire: 1260 The Left Wing: Mongolia and Yuan China The Center: Central Asia and Xinjiang The West and the Golden Horde Conclusion Notes References

3 1350–1500: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia

The Crisis of the Mid-Fourteenth Century and the Fragmentation of the Golden Horde Central Asia and Timur Mobilization in the Kazakh and Mongolian Steppes Notes References

4 1350–1500: Western Inner Eurasia

Picking the Bones of the Golden Horde Pastoralist Successor States The West: Agrarian Successor States and the Agrarian Smychka Notes References

5 1500–1600: Pastoralist and Oasis Societies of Inner Eurasia

The First Global World System Mongolia in the Sixteenth Century The Kazakh Steppes Oasis Polities of Central Asia and the Tarim Basin The Pontic Steppes Notes References

6 1500–1600: Agrarian Societies West of the Volga

Outer Eurasian or Borderland Polities Muscovy in the Sixteenth Century Notes References

7 1600–1750: A Tipping Point: Building a Russian Empire

Global Processes and Impacts: The Little Ice Age and Globalization Breakdown and Recovery of the Muscovite Mobilization Machine Renovating the Mobilization Machine in the Seventeenth Century Expansion in the Seventeenth Century The Early Eighteenth Century: The Russian Empire as a Great Power Expansion in the Early Eighteenth Century Notes References

Muscovite Expansion into Siberia and First Contacts with China Mongolia: Qing Hegemony and the Defeat of the Zunghar Empire Central Inner Eurasia: The Urals and the Kazakh Steppes Notes References

9 1750–1850: Evolution and Expansion of the Russian Empire

Introduction: Global Processes and Impacts Reunifying Inner Eurasia The Russian Heartland: A Mobilizational Plateau Notes References

PART II INNER EURASIA IN THE ERA OF FOSSIL FUELS: 1850–2000

A New Energy Regime: The Fossil Fuels Revolution The Fossil Fuels Revolution in Inner Eurasia: New Challenges and Possibilities The Imperial Heartland: 1850–1900 Destabilization and Restabilization: 1900–1914 Notes References

11 1750–1900: Beyond the Heartlands: Inner Eurasian Empires, Russian and Chinese

Introduction The Changing Nature of Russian Empire Building The Kazakh Steppes Transoxiana Russia in Siberia and the Far East China's Inner Eurasian Empire Conclusions Notes References

12 1914–1921: Unraveling and Rebuilding

Introduction War: 1914–February 1917 1917: February to October A Contest to Build a New Order: Civil War, 1918–1921 Conclusion: The Return of the Past Notes References

13 1921–1930: New Paths to Modernity

Introduction: The Soviet Union in the 1920s: Alternative Futures The New Economic Policy Building a New Mobilization Machine Notes References

14 1930–1950: The Stalinist Industrialization Drive and the Test of War

Introduction The Left Turn and Collectivization: 1929– Industrialization and the Building of a New Military Apparatus The Stalinist Mobilizational Machine Benefits and Costs: Mobilization v. Efficiency The “Great Patriotic War” and its Aftermath: 1941–1953 After the War: 1945–1953 Conclusions Notes References

15 1900–1950: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia

Beyond the Heartland Central Inner Eurasia: Kazakhstan and Transoxiana Siberia, 1900–1950 The Former Chinese Zone: Mongolia and Xinjiang (Western Central Asia) Conclusions: The Early Twentieth Century in Eastern Inner Eurasia Notes References

16 1950–1991: The Heartland: A Plateau, Decline, and Collapse

Introduction: Global Processes The Soviet Heartland, 1953–1991: A Mobilizational Plateau Perestroika and Collapse: 1985–1991 Notes References

Kazakhstan and Central Asia Siberia Mongolia Xinjiang within a Reviving Chinese Empire Notes References

18 1991–2000: Building New States: General Trends and the Russian Federation

Introduction: After the Breakup: The World and Inner Eurasia The Challenge Some General Trends The Russian Federation: A Diminished Heartland Stability and a Return to Centralist Traditions Notes References

19 1991–2000: Building New States: Beyond the Heartlands

The Slavic Republics: Ukraine and Belarus Kazakhstan, Central Asia, and Azerbaijan: 1991–2000 Xinjiang Mongolia, 1985–2000: Reform and Independence Notes References

Epilogue: After 2000: The End of Inner Eurasia? Chronology Index EULA