List of illustrations; List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on spellings and terms; 1. Siberia 'discovered'; 2. Siberia invaded: the seventeenth century; 3. Central and north-east Siberia in the seventeenth century; 4. The Mongolian and Chinese frontier in the seventeenth century; 5. Russia's north Asian colony; 6. The eighteenth century; 7. Expansion in the north Pacific; 8.

Siberia in the Russian empire: the nineteenth century; 9. Colonial settlers in Siberia: the nineteenth century; 10. The Far East in the nineteenth century; 11. The Russian Revolution and civil war in Siberia; 12. The native peoples, 1917-1929; 13. Soviet Siberia in the 1930s; 14. Soviet Russia's Far East in the 1930s; 15. Soviet Siberia after 1941; 16.

The native peoples of Siberia after 1945; 17. Siberia in the 1980s; Bibliography; Index.