The "end of the earth": Sakhalin Island in the Russian imperial imagination, 1849-1906

• Main Author: Corrado, Sharyl
• Other Authors: Steinberg, Mark D., Koenker, Diane P., Randolph, John W., Burton, Antoinette M., Bunzl, Matti
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: hisphilso; litt; Penal; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15583

This dissertation examines Russian discourses concerning colonization of Sakhalin Island from the 1850s, when explorers claimed the island as innately Russian land, to 1906, when Russia withdrew colonists after surrendering southern Sakhalin to Japan. By examining not only the ever-changing state po...