Friesen, Aileen,  1980- <br/><br/>
Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land :   Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe /  
Aileen E. Friesen. 
 - 1 online resource:   illustrations, map 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>A Settler Diocese -- Churches as a National Project  -- Parishes under Construction -- The Politics of Pastoring -- Living and Dying among Strangers -- An Anthill of Baptists in a Land of Muslims. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "The movement of millions of settlers to Siberia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries marked one of the most ambitious undertakings pursued by the tsarist state. Colonizing Russia's Promised Land examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. Russian state officials aspired to lay claim to land that was politically under their authority, but remained culturally unfamiliar. By exploring the formation and evolution of Omsk diocese--a settlement mission--Colonizing Russia's Promised Land reveals how the migration of settlers expanded the role of Orthodoxy as a cultural force in transforming Russia's imperial periphery by "russifying" the land and marginalizing the Indigenous Kazakh population."-- 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781487534554 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.<br/>Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--History--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--19th century.<br/>Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--History--Kazakhstan--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>HISTORY / Europe / Eastern<br/>Colonization.<br/>Church and state.<br/>Église et État--Histoire--Russie--Siberie--19e siecle.<br/>Église et État--Histoire--Kazakhstan--19e siecle.<br/>Church and state--History--Russia (Federation)--Siberia--19th century.<br/>Church and state--History--Kazakhstan--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Russia (Federation)--Siberia.<br/>Kazakhstan.<br/>Siberie (Russie)--Histoire religieuse--19e siecle.<br/>Siberie (Russie)--Colonisation--Histoire--19e siecle.<br/>Siberia (Russia)--Church history--19th century.<br/>Kazakhstan--Church history--19th century.<br/>Siberia (Russia)--Colonization--History--19th century.<br/>Kazakhstan--Colonization--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Church history.<br/>Electronic books.