The house of the dead : Siberian exile under the tsars

Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780307958907
ISBN: 0307958906
Physical Description: print
xxii, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Copyright: ©2016

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"This is a Borzoi book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-440) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: The Bell of Uglich -- Broken Swords -- The Boundary Post -- The Mines of Nerchinsk -- The Academy of Chita -- Sibiracy -- The Dead House -- In the Name of Freedom! -- General Cuckoo's Army -- Fantasies and Nightmares on Sakhalin Island -- The Knout -- Woe to the Vanquished! -- Towards Abolition : Siberia Re-Imagined -- Battlefield of the Revolution -- Epilogue: Red Siberia.

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Exile (Punishment) Russia History
Exile (Punishment) Russia (Federation) Siberia History
Exiles Russia (Federation) Siberia History
Political prisoners Russia (Federation) Siberia History
Penal colonies Russia (Federation) Siberia History
Convict labor Russia (Federation) Siberia History
Revolutionaries Russia (Federation) Siberia History
Siberia (Russia) History 19th century
Siberia (Russia) History 20th century
Russia Social conditions 1801-1917
Convict labor
Exile (Punishment)
Exiles
Penal colonies
Political prisoners
Revolutionaries
Social conditions
Russia
Russia (Federation) Siberia

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