TY  - BOOK
ED  - Massov, Alexander
ED  - Pollard, Marina
ED  - Windle, Kevin
AB  - "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."
DO  - 10.22459/NRS.10.2018
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1002481
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1083018912
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial history
KW  - Australia
KW  - Russia
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/bf8a801e-93d0-4332-89a1-da08b52f5849/newrivalstate.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27526
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781760462284
TI  - A New Rival State? : Australia in Tsarist Diplomatic Communications
ER  - 
