Michael Khodarkovsky is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is author of Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771 and co-editor (with Robert Geraci) of Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in the Russian Empire.

Introduction
1. The Sociology of the Frontier, or Why Peace Was Impossible
2. Frontier Concepts and Policies in Muscovy
3. Taming the "Wild Steppe," 1480-1600s
4. From Steppe Frontier to Imperial Borderlands, 1600-1800
5. Concepts and Policies in the Imperial Borderlands, 1690s-1800
Conclusion
Glossary
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Michael Khodarkovsky is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is author of Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771 and co-editor (with Robert Geraci) of Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in the Russian Empire.