Download or read book Colonizing Russia's Promised Land written by Aileen E. Friesen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe, examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan.