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The House of the Dead - Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Paperback)
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The House of the Dead - Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Paperback)
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WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE
WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE
2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017 THE TIMES,
SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Masterful,
gripping ... filled with astonishing, vivid and heartbreaking
stories of crime and punishment, of redemption, love and terrifying
violence. It has an amazing cast of despots, murderers, whores and
heroes. It's a wonderful read' Simon Sebag Montefiore It was known
as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the
nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime
exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond
the Ural Mountains to Siberia. The House of the Dead, brings to
life both the brutal realities of an inhuman system and the tragic
and inspiring fates of those who endured it. This is the vividly
told history of common criminals and political radicals, the
victims of serfdom and village politics, the wives and children who
followed husbands and fathers, and of fugitives and bounty-hunters.
The tsars looked on Siberia as creating the ultimate political
quarantine from the contagions of revolution. Generations of rebels
- republicans, nationalists and socialists - were condemned to
oblivion thousands of kilometres from European Russia. Over the
nineteenth century, however, these political exiles transformed
Siberia's mines, prisons and remote settlements into an enormous
laboratory of revolution. This masterly work of original research
taps a mass of almost unknown primary evidence held in Russian and
Siberian archives to tell the epic story both of Russia's struggle
to govern its monstrous penal colony and Siberia's ultimate,
decisive impact on the political forces of the modern world. 'An
absolutely fascinating book, rich in fact and anecdote.' - David
Aaronovitch 'A splendid example of academic scholarship for a
public audience. Yet even though he is an impressively calm and
sober narrator, the injustices and atrocities pile up on every
page.' - Dominic Sandbrook 'A superb, colourful history of Siberian
exile under the tsars' - The Times
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