Russian Practices of Governance in Eurasia. Frontier Power Dynamics, Sixteenth Century to Nineteenth Century, Routledge, 2020, 2022
By capitalizing on the mobility factor, the book provides a new perspective on the dynamics of the spread of Russian rule over the vast Eurasian terrain.
‘Under the Tsar’s Exalted Arm’… Russian Technologies of Power in the Formative Period of the Rise of the Russian Empire, Qazaq Universiteti, 2022
The book considers specific mechanisms of steppe political culture that largely facilitated Russian officials to exert their influence on their nomadic counterparts in the initial stages of the expansion of Russian rule in Eurasia.
Land and People. The Russian Colonization of the Kazakh Steppe, Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 2002 [ANOR Central Asian Studies 12]
The subject of this book is the spread of Russian imperial rule over the Kazakh Steppe in the period from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.