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Baron Roman Fedorovich von Ungern-Sternberg (1885-1921) was a Baltic German aristocrat and tsarist military officer who fought against the Bolsheviks in Eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. From there he established himself as the de facto warlord of Outer Mongolia, the base for a fantastical plan to restore the Russian and Chinese empires, which then ended with his capture and execution by the Red Army as the war drew to a close.In The Baron's Cloak, Willard Sunderland tells the epic story of the Russian Empire's final decades through the arc of the Baron's life, which spanned the vast reaches of Eurasia. Tracking Ungern's movements, he transits through the Empire's multinational borderlands, where the country bumped up against three other doomed empires, the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Qing, and where the violence unleashed by war, revolution, and imperial collapse was particularly vicious. In compulsively readable prose that draws on wide-ranging research in multiple languages, Sunderland recreates Ungern's far-flung life and uses it to tell a compelling and original tale of imperial success and failure in a momentous time.Sunderland visited the many sites that shaped Ungern's experience, from Austria and Estonia to Mongolia and China, and these travels help give the book its arresting geographical feel. In the early chapters, where direct evidence of Ungern's activities is sparse, he evokes peoples and places as Ungern would have experienced them, carefully tracing the accumulation of influences that ultimately came together to propel the better documented, more notorious phase of his careerRecurring throughout Sunderland's magisterial account is a specific artifact: the Baron's cloak, an essential part of the cross-cultural uniform Ungern chose for himself by the time of his Mongolian campaign: an orangey-gold Mongolian kaftan embroidered in the Khalkha fashion yet outfitted with tsarist-style epaulettes on the shoulders. Like his cloak, Ungern was an imperial product. He lived across the Russian Empire, combined its contrasting cultures, fought its wars, and was molded by its greatest institutions and most volatile frontiers. By the time of his trial and execution mere months before the decree that created the USSR, he had become a profoundly contradictory figure, reflecting both the empire's potential as a multinational society and its ultimately irresolvable limitations.

Generals --- Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, --- Soviet Union --- Russia --- Mongolia --- Siberia (Russia) --- Mongġol --- 몽골 --- Mongol Uls --- Монгол Улс --- Mongġol Ulus --- Mongolie --- Mongolii︠a︡ --- Монголия --- Mongolei --- BNMAU --- БНМАУ --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Mongol Ard Uls --- Bügd Nayramdah Mongol Ard Uls --- MNR --- МНР --- Mongolʹskai︠a︡ narodnai︠a︡ respublika --- Монгольская народная республика --- Meng-ku jen min kung ho kuo --- Menggu ren min gong he guo --- 蒙古人民共和國 --- Meng-ku --- Menggu --- 蒙古 --- Wai Meng-ku --- Mongolische Volksrepublik --- Mongoru Jimmin Kyōwakoku --- Mongol Népköztársaság --- Outer Mongolia --- Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) --- Mongolian People's Republic --- Mongolia (Mongolian People's Republic) --- République populaire de Mongolie --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Mongol Ard Ulsyn --- Mongolian Republic --- Mongoliet --- モンゴル --- Mongoru --- 外蒙古 --- Gaimōko --- 蒙古人民共和国 --- Mōko Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- モンゴル人民共和国 --- Mongoru Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Inner Mongolia (China) --- Description and travel. --- History, Military --- History --- Description and travel --- Sternberg, Roman Ungern-, --- Унгерн-Стернберг, --- Ungern-Sternberg, --- Унгерн-Штернберг, Р. Ф. --- Ungern-Shternberg, R. F. --- Штернберг, Р. Ф. Унгерн --- -Shternberg, R. F. Ungern --- -Ungern-Sternberg, Robert Roman, --- Von Ungern-Sternberg, Robert, --- -Ungern-Sternberg, Roman Feodorovitch von, --- Ungern-Shternberg, Roman Fedorovich, --- Унгерн-Штернберг, Роман Федорович, --- Ungern-Sternberg, Robert Roman, --- baron roman fedorovich von ungern-sternberg, russian civil war, history of russian empire, why the russian empire fell apart in the late imperial and revolutionary periods. --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Mongġol Arad Ulus --- Mengguguo --- 蒙古国 --- Wai Menggu

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Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural pluralism --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation)

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"Exploration was a central and perhaps defining aspect of the West's encounters with other peoples and lands. Rather than reproduce celebratory narratives of individual heroism and national glory, this volume focuses on exploration's instrumental role in shaping a European sense of exceptionalism and its iconic importance in defining the terms of cultural engagement with other peoples. In chapters offering broad geographic range, the contributors address many of the key themes of recent research on exploration, including exploration's contribution to European imperial expansion, Western scientific knowledge, Enlightenment ideas and practices, and metropolitan print culture. They reassess indigenous peoples' responses upon first contacts with European explorers, their involvement as intermediaries in the operations of expeditions, and the complications that their prior knowledge posed for European claims of discovery. Underscoring that exploration must be seen as a process of mediation between representation and reality, this book provides a fresh and accessible introduction to the ongoing reinterpretation of exploration's role in the making of the modern world"--

World history --- expeditions [journeys] --- Discoveries in geography --- European --- History. --- Exceptionalism --- Indians --- Découvertes géographiques européennes --- Exceptionnalisme --- Indiens d'Amérique --- European. --- History --- First contact with Europeans. --- Histoire --- Premiers contacts avec les Européens --- Europe --- Territorial expansion. --- Expansion territoriale --- HISTORY --- SCIENCE --- TRAVEL --- Expeditions & Discoveries. --- Renaissance. --- Earth Sciences --- Geography. --- Budget. --- Hikes & Walks. --- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest. --- Parks & Campgrounds. --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Geography-General --- First contact with Europeans --- First contact with other peoples. --- ontdekkingsreizen --- kolonialisme