Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771

Michael Khodarkovsky

Published by Cornell University Press 2006

Where Two Worlds Met

The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600–1771

Michael Khodarkovsky

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731525

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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing...

Author / Editor information

Michael Khodarkovsky is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. He is coeditor of Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia, also from Cornell, and author of Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800.

Reviews

John Masson Smith, Jr., University of California, Berkeley:

Valuable, interesting, and instructive. Khodarkovsky's book is unique in English-language scholarship and fills a considerable gap, providing some real revelations in the understanding of Inner Asian and Russian history.

Thomas J. Barfield, Boston University:

This excellent piece of scholarship makes a substantial contribution to the field. Drawing on previously unworked archival material, Khodarkovsky shows the Kalmyks as central actors in the politics of Inner Asia.

Azade-Ayse Rorlich:

This book should not elude any serious student of Eurasia, for it makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of the empire-borderland equation.

Yuri Bregel:

This book is a piece of solid scholarship which contributes substantially to our understanding of the history of the inner Asian nomadic world and Russia's relations with it.

Lindsey Hughes:

One welcomes this book by a scholar who is prepared to tackle the slippery subject of the clash of the nomadic and the sedentary worlds from the vantage point of both.... Michael Khodarkovsky offers a meticulously documented and admirably clear chronological account of Russo-Kalmyk relations within the wider context of Kalmyk society, international relations, and regional politics.

James Critchlow:

Khodarkovsky's book is a detailed account of relations between Kalmyks and Russians prior to 1771. To provide greater balance than was previously available, he matches Russian sources with material gleaned from the Ottoman archives, and he provides an initial chapter on the structure of Kalmyk nomadic society.

Khodarkovsky offers a short survey of Kalmyk society and a larger narrative on relations between Russia and the Kalmyks until they returned to Mongolia in 1771.... The story reminds readers of a pervasive theme of Russian history, the dangerous frontier, on which the Kalmyks were a formidable player in action that included the Crimean and Nogay Tatars, the Yaik and Don Cossacks, and Ottoman Turkey and Poland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Maps and Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Kalmyk and Oirat Rulers Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
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1. Kalmyk Nomadic Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
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3. The Arrival of the Kalmyks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
4. The Rise to Power of Ayuki Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5. Uneasy Alliance: Ayuki Khan and Russia, 1697-1722 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
6. Succession Crisis, 1722-1735 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
7. Russian Colonization and the Kalmyks' Decline and Exodus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
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Appendix. A Kalmyk-Muscovite Diplomatic Confrontation, 1650: A Translation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Other: 4 maps, 5 halftones
Keywords: Soviet & East European History; History

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501731525