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Representing the Empire: The Meaning of Siberia for Russian Imperial Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Claudia Weiss
Claudia Weiss*
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Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, Germany. Email: claudiaweiss@mac.com
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 3: Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism , July 2007 , pp. 439 - 456
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