Russian and American Frontier and Imperialist Expansion
with links to SAC & MAPS

Table of Contents =
Earliest epochs
Indigenous peoples
20th-century imperialism and World War One
World War Two
Cold War
Third World
New World Order
Bibliography of General Works

RUSSIA [MAP] Shared [MAP] [MAP] USA [MAP] [MAP]  
1223:1328; GOLDEN HORDE (Mongol [Tatar] Dominion) Russia as victim of frontier expansion (e.g., Mongol invasion) [MAP] [MAP]      
14th-16th centuries: Stroganov north
[a 9-hop LOOP] [MAP]		      
1580s:Yermak [Ermak] [MAP]
1600s: Voevody [a 9-jump LOOP] NB! = Siberian Prikaz & 1680s:Khabarov & freebooter voevody in Amur.R basin [MAP]		   1600s:[USA] Atlantic diaspora to "New World" [LOOP] [MAP]  
1689au27:Nerchinsk Treaty as a result of "bump" against China
[MAP] [MAP] [MAP]		   USA "bumped" against remote powers
[MAP] [MAP] =
1760s: England (involving native Americans) NB!   1803:France  below, AND 1898:Spain below		  
Canal project, linking Volga and Don rivers
(3-hop LOOP)		 1780:Russian Empress Catherine II aided USA rebels with "League of Armed Neutrality" 1776:1812; USA Revolutionary consolidation
vs. England		  
1741:1867; Russian America: Intense "shared history" of frontier/imperialist expansion began
[MAP] [MAP]		 1799my08:Russian America Co. founded
[9-hop LOOP]

1815:1817; Hawaiian episode

 1803ap30:USA made Louisiana Purchase
from France [MAP]		  
1820s:1860s; Central Asia lured Russia away from the New World [MAP] 1823de02:USA issued "Monroe Doctrine" [MAP] 1825:Erie Canal project  
  Fort Ross CA
[pix] [pix] [MAP] [W]		    
  1853:+; Manchuria, China & Japan [MAP] Putiatin LOOP involves USA 1846:1870s; USA War with Mexico [MAP]  
     

 

Indigenous Peoples =

 

  
E. Siberian Bashkirs
[13-hop LOOP,
nearly 2 centuries]		   Native Americans in Eastern USA [MAP] in Western USA [MAP] USA indigenous Native Americans from 1675 to 1870s (about 2 centuries). including =  
Chechen/Ingush [LOOP] Wheat zones, USA
Wheat zones, Russia		 East-coast indigenous peoples, Cherokees  
  1831:+; International grain trade LOOP 1856:+; USA waged war on Great Plains Native Americans  
  1867:Russia sold Alaska to USA| Native peoples of Alaska [MAP]    
     

The era of "high imperialism" & World War One:

Russia Shared USA
1877:1879; Russo-Turkish War [MAP] Global petroleum industry    
1891:1903; Trans-Siberian railroad completed [MAP] 1900c:China = Foreign spheres of influence [MAP] 1896:1898; USA in Spanish-American War;  
1904:1905; Russo-Japanese War
[MAP] [MAP]		 1898:1905; US imperialism [11-hop LOOP to the end of the Russo-Japanese War [MAP]    
1912:1913; Balkan Wars
[MAP]		 1914:+; World War One: Two fronts [MAP] 1917:1918; USA joins war in its final 18 mos.  
  Allied military intervention in Russian revolutionary politics
(6-hop LOOP)		 1918:1933;   USA Inter-war isolation (from Europe)  
USSR & internal colonization: the Gulag system 1933no:USA granted diplomatic recognition to USSR    

 

 World War Two
  In Europe [MAP] In the Pacific [MAP]  
*--Precipitating events =
Japan invaded China
  Hitler turned toward Eastern Europe    
*--Four phases =
1a = Hitler settled with USSR and took Poland 1b = Hitler then turned against Western Europe    
2 = Hitler turned back from Western Europe, sent forces against the USSR      
  2b = Mediterranean front 3 = Japan attacked USA  
  4 = Western front revived    
1945au06:USSR declared war on Japan | USSR withdrew from Manchuria and Western China | USSR withdrew from Austria *--Wartime agreements =
* Lend-Lease Act
* Atlantic Charter
* "Big Three" met before USA directly involved in WW2
* Early promises of a second front
* Casablanca Conf.
* Moscow "four power declaration"
* Teheran Conference
* Cairo Conference
* Yalta Conference
* Potsdam Conference at end of the European war
* Final efforts at comprehensive diplomatic solutions		    

 

Cold War =
[N.hemisphere map]
  *--From destruction to recovery = Europe in ruins Marshall Plan  
== Strategic visions == == Strategic visions == == Strategic visions ==
USSR Ambassador Nikolai Novikov * Alva Myrdal
* Charles de Gaulle
* Kwame Nkrumah
* J-J. Servan-Schreiber
 		 USA Ambassador George Frost Kennan
  AND
USA National Security Council and Paul Nitze
  AND
Hans J. Morgenthau		  
  *--Remilitarization:
* Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
* "Truman Doctrine"
* USA National Security Act
* NATO
* Military-industrial complexes		    
  *--Lost Chances to End It =
* Death of Stalin & election of Eisenhower
* 1955jy:Geneva "Four-Power" Conference		    
 

*--European front =
* Czechoslovakia
* Cominform
* Berlin Blockade
* 1948de:Polish
* "ComEcon"
* European Coal and Steel Community
* Germany into NATO
* Federal Republic of "West Germany"
* Warsaw Pact
* A significant conjuction of events: Egypt and Hungary

    
 

* 1957:USSR-China
* Afghanistan

 *--"Third World"
* Theoretical views

*--Asian front =
* Chinese Revolution
* Indonesia
* Korean War
* Bandung Conference
* Afghanistan

  

* Atomic Bomb
* Vietnam
 

  
  *--Other fronts =
* Iran
* Algerian Revolution
* Cuban Missile Crisis

* Home front dissent

 * The OAS
* 1954:Guatemala		  

New World Order? =
1989:1992; USSR collapse [MAP] * Soviet Perestroika
* European Union		 1992:+; USA "victory" in the era of the "New World Order [Disorder]"?  
Russian struggles in Chechnya
Terrorism [ID]

2004se10:Beslan school attack

 1990s+:Russia and USA both targets of "terrorism" and introduce significant institutional changes in order to deal with terrorism 
(6-hop LOOP)		 2001se11:Terrorist attacks on USA targets
Review article on Iraq and the "New World Order"

New World Order =
Most Recent Events

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL WORKS

*--Russia and the wider world in historical perspective : Essays for Paul Dukes