ABSTRACT
The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were an age of robust European expansion overseas and territorial consolidation in the frontiers of the United States, Canada, South Africa, and Asian Russia. Historians often neglect to consider Russia’s involvement in this arena, yet of all the examples of colonization in modern world history, few compared in extent with Russia’s effort in Siberia, the destination of approximately five million peasant migrants between 1891 and 1914.
