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1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary |
"Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. From there he established himself as the de facto warlord of Outer Mongolia, the base for a fantastical plan to restore the Russian and Chinese empires, which then ended with his capture and execution by the Red Army as the war drew to a close. In The Baron's Cloak, Willard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire's final decades through the arc of the Baron's life, which spanned the vast reaches of Eurasia. Tracking Ungern's movements, he transits through the Empire's multinational borderlands, where the country bumped up against three other doomed empires, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Qing, and where the violence unleashed by war, revolution, and imperial collapse was particularly vicious ... Sunderland recreates Ungern's far-flung life and uses it to tell a compelling and original tale of imperial success and failure in a momentous time"-- Publisher's Web site. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Graz -- Estland -- St. Petersburg, Manchuria, St. Petersburg -- Beyond the Baikal -- The Black Dragon River -- Kobdo -- Warland -- The ataman's domain -- Urga -- Kiakhta -- Red Siberia. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription MAS Reference Collection |
| Subject |
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, 1885-1921.
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Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, 1885-1921. (OCoLC)fst00174107
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Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) (OCoLC)fst01907572
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Generals -- Russia -- Biography.
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Generals -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
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Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
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Mongolia -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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Russia -- Description and travel.
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Soviet Union -- Description and travel.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Mongolia. (OCoLC)fst01208752
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Russia (Federation) (OCoLC)fst01262050
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Russia (Federation) -- Siberia.
(OCoLC)fst01243666
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Military history. (OCoLC)fst01411630
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sunderland, Willard, 1965- Baron's cloak. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014 9780801452703 (DLC) 2013045239 (OCoLC)862207286 |
| ISBN |
9780801471070 (electronic book) |
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0801471079 (electronic book) |
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9780801452703 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0801452708 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
