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Between 1845 and 1895 roughly 1,500,000 square miles of territory in Central Asia
were added to the Russian empire. Russia's expansion southwards across the Kazakh steppe into the
riverine oases of Turkestan was one of the nineteenth century's most dramatic examples of imperial
conquest, but remains under-researched and misinterpreted. This is partly because for many years Russia
was not considered to be a "colonial" empire at all, as both western and Soviet historians claimed that
the cultural and racial hierarchies of western colonialism were absent from the Tsar's domains. It is also
because much of the material needed to study it was unavailable to western scholars. |
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