Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: The Museum at the End of Whose World? ix
4. Note on Transliteration xix
5. Map of the Russian Far East xx
6. 1. Across the Bering Strait and Through the Looking Glass 1
7. 2. Chukotka: At the Edge of a Crumbling Empire 26
8. 3. Magadan: The End of History 56
9. 4. Anadyr: Tundra Town in Pastel 72
10. 5. Khabarovsk: Embroidering the Border 99
11. 6. Petropavlovsk: Once Almost a Boom Town 126
12. 7. Esso and the Way There 154
13. 8. In the Entourage of the Fisher King 174
14. 9. Again Petropavlovsk 193
15. Epilogues 210
16. Notes 215
17. Selected Sources 219
18. Index 223