Background
Khodarkovsky, Michael was born on February 12, 1955 in Kiev, Ukraine. Arrived in United States, 1979, naturalized, 1985.
(During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expan...)
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing on an unparalleled body of Russian and Turkish sources--including chronicles, epics, travelogues, and previously unstudied Ottoman archival materials--Michael Khodarkovsky offers a fresh interpretation of this long and destructive conflict, which ended with the unruly frontier becoming another province of the Russian empire.
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Khodarkovsky, Michael was born on February 12, 1955 in Kiev, Ukraine. Arrived in United States, 1979, naturalized, 1985.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1987.
Assistant professor Kalamazoo College, 1987—1991. Professor Loyola University, Chicago, since 1991.
(During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expan...)
Children: Loic Blanke, Tosya Blanke.