title: The Amur Expedition and the Committee for the Settlement of the Far East in the Agenda of the Russian Council of Ministers under P. A. Stolypin
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metadata.value: Yanchenko, D. G.
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metadata.value: 2023-08-17T18:25:43Z
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metadata.value: 2023-08-17T18:25:43Z
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metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Yanchenko D. G. ‘The Amur Expedition and the Committee for the Settlement of the Far East in the Agenda of the Russian Council of Ministers under P. A. Stolypin’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023, pp. 56–75. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.104 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/43772
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metadata.value: The defeat in the Russo-Japanese War forced the Russian authorities to change their strategy: instead
  of territorial expansion, the main task was to settle the Russian-speaking population in the Russian Far East and
  to ensure the border area security. For this purpose, large infrastructure projects were financed from the state
  budget during the interwar period. One of the most famous was the Amur railroad, the construction of which, as in
  the case with the Trans-Siberian Railway, significantly accelerated the colonization of the vast but sparsely populated
  territories of the Amur Region. In official publications and government discussions, the role of the road was
  associated not only with the achievement of military and strategic goals, but also with the economic development
  of Siberia and the Far East as a whole. At the same time, the establishment of a coordinating center for Far Eastern
  colonization became urgent in view of a large-scale attempt to solve the agrarian question in Central Russia.
  Participation of the members of the unified Government — the Council of Ministers — in the development of these
  measures implied taking into account all inter-agency interests. At the end of 1908, the Chairman of the Council
  of Ministers could only formulate general wishes on the organization of theoretical (scientific work) and practical (resettlement) aspects in the Far East. These proposals did not consider the specifics of lawmaking in the Duma
  monarchy. Attempts of the Main Administration for Land Management and Agriculture headed by A. V. Krivoshein
  to monopolize the subject of resettlement encountered sharp opposition from the most influential part of the government.
  The decision taken in 1909 to establish the Committee on the settlement of the Far East and to organize
  the Amur expedition was a compromise which was not predetermined by P. A. Stolypin’s original plans.
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metadata.value: The research was prepared with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project no. 22-28-01350
  “Colonization of the Far East and Manchuria in Russian and Chinese Government Documents, Journalism and
  Periodicals, 1894–1920”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 13; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Far East
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Amur expedition
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Committee for the Settlement of the Far East
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: colonization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chinese Eastern Railway
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Council of Ministers
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Amur Expedition and the Committee for the Settlement of the Far East in the Agenda of the Russian Council of Ministers under P. A. Stolypin
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