Drawing together the research of Western and Soviet historians, The History of Siberia (originally published in 1991) examines the ways in which the development of Siberia has been inextricably linked with the historical evolution of the Russian Empire as a whole. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history.

Alan Wood, at the time of the first publication, was Lecturer in Russian History at Lancaster University, Convenor of the British Universities Siberian Studies Seminar and the founding editor of the journal SIBIRICA.

1. Introduction: Siberia's role in Russian history 2. the administrative apparatus of the Russian colony in Siberia and Northern Asia, 1581-1700 3. Subjugation and settlement in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Siberia 4. Opening up Siberia: Russia's 'window on the East' 5. The Siberian native peoples before and after the Russian conquest 6. Tsarist Russia in colonial America: critical constraints 7. Russia's 'Wild East': exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia 8. Migration, settlement and the rural economy of Siberia, 1861-1914 9. Siberia in revolution and civil war, 1917-1921 Afterword: Siberia in the twentieth century