Table of Contents

Preface Maps Illustrations Part I: Russian Turkestan and the Revolt of 1916 1. Judgments on a Flawed Imperial Undertaking 2. Visions of Imperial Integration 3. Colonial Uniqueness and Authoritarian Rule Part II: Constructing Russia's New Colony 1. Creating Colonial Turkestan 2. Kaufman's Colonial Plans 3. Colonial Knowledge of Turkestan Part III: The Colony in the Empire 1. Civil Order and the Statute of 1886 2. Language Politics and Cultural Missionaries 3. Colonial Profits and Productivity Part IV: Islam in Russian Turkestan 1. Colonial Conflict and Islam 2. Turkestan in a New Civilization 3. Resurgent Popular Islam Part V: The Making of a Settler Colony 1. Plans for Settler-Soldiers 2. Pioneers and Nomads 3. Colonization and the Empire Part VI: Turkestan and the Fall of the Russian Empire 1. War and Colonial Crisis 2. Colonial Collapse Epilogue: The Colonial Dilemma Resolved Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Daniel Brower ia a Professor of History at the University of California - Davis. His research has centred on the social and political history of the Russian Empire.

Reviews

"[T]his study proves extremely valuable in exposing administrative agendas and complications that affected not just the faraway colony, but the core itself, in late Imperial Russia."
-"The Russian Review, Jeff Sahadeo
"Brower's portrayal of the important colonial figures...is the most valuable contribution of the book....An original study."
-"Central Eurasian Studies Review
"This book is a welcome addition to the recent excellent studies of the non-Christian peoples of the Russian empire....Those unfamiliar with the history of the Russian Turkestan will find this a good and highly readable book."
-"Slavic Review