Status Updates From Taming the Wild Field: Colo...

I have to read the whole book for work so I guess I can add it to goodreads too ^^

"By the dawn of the twentieth century, the steppe had been so profoundly transformed by Russian imperialism that it was difficult for contemporaries to determine whether it constituted a borderland, a colony, or Russia itself."

"Russia's 'Era of Reforms' was also an age of expanding empire, both at home and abroad."
-p. 158

"Thus by the middle of the eighteenth century, the Russian establishment had grown accustomed to viewing the steppe as an alien and empty frontier that required colonization, both as a matter of state security and for effective governance." p. 51

Russia in World History