Aileen Friesen. Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land is a book fascinating by its rich and detailed micro histories, such as the story of a priest, Grigorii (Poletaev), who at the age of 64 became the bishop of Omsk and Semipalatinsk and had to organize religious life in a new diocese’s from scratch. He had no place to live, not to mention support to organize the diocese infrastructure. This and many other thick historical descriptions that the reader will find in the book bring closer the complexity of political, social, and cultural situation in Siberia at the end of the nineteenth–beginning of the twentieth century. At the same time, however, the book offers generalizations that simplify the picture of colonization of Siberia. Moreover, the reader must believe the author and her interpretations, because the book lacks any description of its methodology, and only from the endnotes and the bibliography does the reader learn what kinds of documents constitute the basis for the book’s argumentation. Text in English
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".