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"Alexander Nefedkin's highly original new book, translated by the noted American scholar Richard L. Bland, is devoted to the understudied topic of the military and military-political history of Chukotka, the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation, separated from Alaska by Bering Strait. This study is based on primary sources, including archeological, folkloric, and documentary evidence, dating from ancient times to the cessation of conflict in the territory in the nineteenth century. Nefedkin's analysis surveys the military history of these eras, reassessing well known topics and bringing to light previously unknown events"--…mehr

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"Alexander Nefedkin's highly original new book, translated by the noted American scholar Richard L. Bland, is devoted to the understudied topic of the military and military-political history of Chukotka, the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation, separated from Alaska by Bering Strait. This study is based on primary sources, including archeological, folkloric, and documentary evidence, dating from ancient times to the cessation of conflict in the territory in the nineteenth century. Nefedkin's analysis surveys the military history of these eras, reassessing well known topics and bringing to light previously unknown events"--
Autorenporträt
Alexander K. Nefedkin, Faculty of History, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Dr. Nefedkin is editor-in-chief of the Russian military history journal Parabellum novum. He is Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Historical Anthropology at Belgorod State University. He has published more than 230 scientific and popular works on military affairs (including seven monographs) in Russian and English, some articles have been translated into French and Spanish. Richard L. Bland Ph.D., retired, was an archaeologist for the U.S. National Park Service, Heritage Research Associates in Eugene, and the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. He now translates books and articles into English. He has published more than 200 translations.