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Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe (1st Edition) by Willard Sunderland, Douglas Biow Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-8014-7347-0 / 0801473470 ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7347-0 / 9780801473470 Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabi |