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...Richard A. Pierce The Great Siberian Migration. Government and Peasant in Resettlement from Emancipation to the First World War . By Donald W. Treadgold . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1957 , xiii, 278 , Maps, Bibliography, Illustrations, Index. $5.00. The Soviet Far...

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