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David Wolff. To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx, 255 pp. $49.50.

David Wolff. To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914.... David Wolff. To the H a r b i n Station: The Liberal Alternative i n Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx, 255 pp. $49.50. David Wolff has written an excellent and important book. Excellent because it is well-researched, competently argued and thoroughly readable. Important because it gives the reader a view into a pre-revolutionary Russia that many may find unfamil- iar. True, one might argue that Harbin was not exactly Russia, but it is the author's contention that it is precisely the borderland nature o f this city that made it, while very much a Russian place, completely distinct from the Russian cities within the ter- ritorial confines o f the Empire. Harbin was founded in 1898 as a railroad settlement on the line o f the future Chi- nese Eastern Railway, but, in fact, the Russian "founding" overlay a Chinese settle- ment that had existed on the spot for many years. The developing city bore its dualis- tic origins throughout its existence, despite even the Cultural Revolution's attempt to eliminate all traces o f its Russian origins, and also despite earlier Russian attempts to make the city a typically Russian outpost. Much http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

David Wolff. To the Harbin Station: The Liberal Alternative in Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx, 255 pp. $49.50.

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Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 35 (2-3): 297 – Jan 1, 2001
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David Wolff. To the H a r b i n Station: The Liberal Alternative i n Russian Manchuria, 1898-1914. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. xx, 255 pp. $49.50. David Wolff has written an excellent and important book. Excellent because it is well-researched, competently argued and thoroughly readable. Important because it gives the reader a view into a pre-revolutionary Russia that many may find unfamil- iar. True, one might argue that Harbin was not exactly Russia, but it is the author's contention that it is precisely the borderland nature o f this city that made it, while very much a Russian place, completely distinct from the Russian cities within the ter- ritorial confines o f the Empire. Harbin was founded in 1898 as a railroad settlement on the line o f the future Chi- nese Eastern Railway, but, in fact, the Russian "founding" overlay a Chinese settle- ment that had existed on the spot for many years. The developing city bore its dualis- tic origins throughout its existence, despite even the Cultural Revolution's attempt to eliminate all traces o f its Russian origins, and also despite earlier Russian attempts to make the city a typically Russian outpost. Much

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