Where Two Worlds Met: The Russian State and the Kalmyk Nomads, 1600-1771. By Michael Khodarkovsky. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992. xiv, 278 pp. Index. Illustrations. $34.95, hard bound.

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The book is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 gives an anthropological description of Kalmyk nomadic society, including its social structure, military organization, law and religious beliefs. Chapter 2 discusses the "mutual perception" of the two societies—Kalmyk and Russian—and its expression in cultural symbolism and rituals of the diplomatic relations between the two political entities. Chapters 3-7 deal with Kalmyk history, from the arrival of the Kalmyks fromjungharia to the Caspian… 
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