|
Showing 1 - 16 of
16 matches in All Departments
This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to
Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection. The imperial
Russian government fell back upon using exile to punish the
insurrectionists and to cleanse Russia's Western Provinces of
ethnic Poles. It convoyed some 20,000 inhabitants of the Kingdom of
Poland and the Western Provinces across the Urals to locations as
far away as Iakutsk, and assigned them to penal labor or forced
settlement. Yet the government's lack of infrastructure and
planning doomed this operation from the start, and the exiles found
ways to resist their subjugation. Based upon archival documents
from Siberia and the former Western Provinces, this book offers an
unparalleled exploration of the mass deportation. Combining social
history with an analysis of statecraft, it is a unique contribution
to scholarship on the history of Poland and the Russian Empire.
Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos
& its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic
& political, rather than judicial or penological, factors
primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth & development.
This is an English-language translation of P.F. Iakubovich's
popular roman a clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian
penal laborer during the late 19th century.
Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000
Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and
mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their
stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and
personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of
tsarist Siberian exile.
This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis,
existence, and demise of Imperial Russia's largest penal colony,
made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there
in 1890. Based on extensive original research in archival
documents, published reports, and memoirs, the book is also a
social history of the late imperial bureaucracy and of the
subaltern society of criminals and exiles; an examination of the
tsarist state's failed efforts at reform; an exploration of Russian
imperialism in East Asia and Russia's acquisition of Sakhalin
Island in the face of competition from Japan; and an
anthropological and literary study of the Sakhalin landscape and
its associated values and ideologies. The Sakhalin penal colony
became one of the largest penal colonies in history. The book's
conclusion prompts important questions about contemporary prisons
and their relationship to state and society.
This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis,
existence, and demise of Imperial Russia's largest penal colony,
made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there
in 1890. Based on extensive original research in archival
documents, published reports, and memoirs, the book is also a
social history of the late imperial bureaucracy and of the
subaltern society of criminals and exiles; an examination of the
tsarist state's failed efforts at reform; an exploration of Russian
imperialism in East Asia and Russia's acquisition of Sakhalin
Island in the face of competition from Japan; and an
anthropological and literary study of the Sakhalin landscape and
its associated values and ideologies. The Sakhalin penal colony
became one of the largest penal colonies in history. The book's
conclusion prompts important questions about contemporary prisons
and their relationship to state and society.
This is an English-language translation of P.F. Iakubovich's
popular roman a clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian
penal laborer during the late 19th century.
'Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas
Doroshevich's "Sakhalin"' is the first English language translation
of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich's 1903 account of his
visit to tsarist Russia's largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the
north Pacific. Despite the publication of Anton Chekhov's account
of his visit to Sakhalin in 1890, many Russians remained unaware of
the brutality and savagery of the 'devil island'. In 1897
Doroshevich, Russia's most popular journalist, travelled to
Sakhalin and spent three months touring the island, interviewing
numerous prisoners and officials, and recording his impressions.
The feuilletons he wired back to his publishers were eventually
collected and published in book form in 1903, under the title
'Sakhalin' (Katorga).
Doroshevich's book was enormously popular when it first
appeared, and it continues to be published in Russia, as a
historical record of the striking barbarity of late nineteenth
century penal practices. Despite this popularity, it has never
before been translated into English, and Doroshevich remains
largely unknown outside Russia. This translation introduces
English-language readers to an important writer and original
stylist who defined journalistic practice during the years leading
up to the 1917 Revolution, by way of a book which helps explain the
causes for that revolution.
'Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas
Doroshevich's "Sakhalin"' is the first English language translation
of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich's 1903 account of his
visit to tsarist Russia's largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the
north Pacific.
This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to
Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection. The imperial
Russian government fell back upon using exile to punish the
insurrectionists and to cleanse Russia's Western Provinces of
ethnic Poles. It convoyed some 20,000 inhabitants of the Kingdom of
Poland and the Western Provinces across the Urals to locations as
far away as Iakutsk, and assigned them to penal labor or forced
settlement. Yet the government's lack of infrastructure and
planning doomed this operation from the start, and the exiles found
ways to resist their subjugation. Based upon archival documents
from Siberia and the former Western Provinces, this book offers an
unparalleled exploration of the mass deportation. Combining social
history with an analysis of statecraft, it is a unique contribution
to scholarship on the history of Poland and the Russian Empire.
Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000
Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and
mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their
stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and
personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of
tsarist Siberian exile.
Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos
and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic
and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors
primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development.
|
|