 | Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe: Settling the Molochna Basin, 1784-1861 Subjects: Molochnaya River Region (Ukraine) -- Colonization -- History; Land settlement -- Ukraine -- Molochnaya River Region -- Cross-cultural studies; Land settlement -- Ukraine -- Molochnaya River Region -- History; Land settlement -- Government policy -- Russia; In a regional history of colonization and adaptation in southern Ukraine, Staples examines how diverse agrarian groups, faced with common environmental, economic, and administrative conditions, followed sharply divergent paths of development. Staples John R. : John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia. |
