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oapen-20.500.12657-275262023-08-17T12:22:51Z A New Rival State? Massov, Alexander Pollard, Marina Windle, Kevin History Colonial history Australia Russia bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJM Australasian & Pacific history "A New Rival State? is a unique collection of dispatches written in 1857–1917 by the Russian consuls in Melbourne to the Imperial Russian Embassy in London and the Russian Foreign Ministry in St Petersburg. Written by eight consuls, they offer a Russian view of the development of the settler colonies in the late nineteenth century and the first years of the federated Commonwealth of Australia. They cover the federalist movement, the changing domestic political situation, labour politics, the treatment of the Indigenous population, the ‘White Australia’ policy, Australia’s defensive capacity and foreign policy as part of the British Empire. The bulk of the material is drawn from the Russian-language collection The Russian Consular Service in Australia 1857–1917, edited by Alexander Massov and Marina Pollard (2014), using documents from the archive of the Russian Foreign Ministry." 2018-11-28 08:41:50 2020-04-01T11:56:06Z 2020-04-01T11:56:06Z 2018 book 1002481 OCN: 1083018912 9781760462284 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27526 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International newrivalstate.pdf ANU Press 10.22459/NRS.10.2018 10.22459/NRS.10.2018 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760462284 368 open access
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"A New Rival State? is a unique collection of dispatches written in 1857–1917 by the Russian consuls in Melbourne to the Imperial Russian Embassy in London and the Russian Foreign Ministry in St Petersburg. Written by eight consuls, they offer a Russian view of the development of the settler colonies in the late nineteenth century and the first years of the federated Commonwealth of Australia. They cover the federalist movement, the changing domestic political situation, labour politics, the treatment of the Indigenous population, the ‘White Australia’ policy, Australia’s defensive capacity and foreign policy as part of the British Empire.
The bulk of the material is drawn from the Russian-language collection The Russian Consular Service in Australia 1857–1917, edited by Alexander Massov and Marina Pollard (2014), using documents from the archive of the Russian Foreign Ministry."
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