Siberian Exile

Author : Daniel Beer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307958914

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The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer Pdf

Winner of the Cundill History Prize The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia’s decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.

Author : Julija Sukys
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496203144

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Siberian Exile by Julija Sukys Pdf

2018 AABS Book Prize Winner 2018 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature in Nonfiction When Julija Sukys was a child, her paternal grandfather, Anthony, rarely smiled, and her grandmother, Ona, spoke only in her native Lithuanian. But they still taught Sukys her family's story: that of a proud people forced from their homeland when the soldiers came. In mid-June 1941, three Red Army soldiers arrested Ona, forced her onto a cattle car, and sent her east to Siberia, where she spent seventeen years separated from her children and husband, working on a collective farm. The family story maintained that it was all a mistake. Anthony, whose name was on Stalin's list of enemies of the people, was accused of being a known and decorated anti-Bolshevik and Lithuanian nationalist. Some seventy years after these events, Sukys sat down to write about her grandparents and their survival of a twenty-five-year forced separation and subsequent reunion. Piecing the story together from letters, oral histories, audio recordings, and KGB documents, her research soon revealed a Holocaust-era secret--a family connection to the killing of seven hundred Jews in a small Lithuanian border town. According to KGB documents, the man in charge when those massacres took place was Anthony, Ona's husband. In Siberian Exile Sukys weaves together the two narratives: the story of Ona, noble exile and innocent victim, and that of Anthony, accused war criminal. She examines the stories that communities tell themselves and considers what happens when the stories we've been told all our lives suddenly and irrevocably change, and how forgiveness or grace operate across generations and across the barriers of life and death.

Author : Sarah Badcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191057656

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A Prison Without Walls? by Sarah Badcock Pdf

A Prison Without Walls? presents a snapshot of daily life for exiles and their dependents in eastern Siberia during the very last years of the Tsarist regime, from the 1905 revolution to the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917. This was an extraordinary period in Siberia's history as a place of punishment. There was an unprecedented rise of Siberia's penal use in this fifteen-year window, and a dramatic increase in the number of exiles punished for political offences. This work focuses on the region of Eastern Siberia, taking the regions of Irkutsk and Yakutsk in north-eastern Siberia as its focal points. Siberian exile was the antithesis of Foucault's modern prison. The State did not observe, monitor, and control its exiles closely; often not even knowing where the exiles were. Exiles were free to govern their daily lives; free of fences and free from close observation and supervision, but despite these freedoms, Siberian exile represented one of Russia's most feared punishments. In this volume, Sarah Badcock seeks to humanise the individuals who made up the mass of exiles, and the men, women, and children who followed them voluntarily into exile. A Prison Without Walls? is structured in a broad narrative arc that moves from travel to exile, life and communities in exile, work and escape, and finally illness in exile. The book gives a personal, human, empathetic insight into what exilic experience entailed, and allows us to comprehend why eastern Siberia was regarded as a terrible punishment, despite its apparent freedoms.

Author : Rufin Piotrowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Exiles
ISBN : HARVARD:32044058160730

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The Story of a Siberian Exile by Rufin Piotrowski Pdf

Author : George Kennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Exiles
ISBN : UOM:39015002337122

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Siberia and the Exile System by George Kennan Pdf

Author : George Kennan
Publisher : New York, Century
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Exiles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010569445

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Siberia and the Exile System by George Kennan Pdf

Author : George Kennan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108048231

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Siberia and the Exile System by George Kennan Pdf

An American journalist's unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, of Russia's brutal penal system in Siberia.

Author : Julija Sukys
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496216670

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Siberian Exile by Julija Sukys Pdf

2018 Book Prize from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 2018 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature in Nonfiction from the Koffler Centre of the Arts in Toronto When Julija Šukys was a child, her paternal grandfather, Anthony, rarely smiled, and her grandmother, Ona, spoke only in her native Lithuanian. But they still taught Šukys her family’s story: that of a proud people forced from their homeland when the soldiers came. In mid-June 1941 three Red Army soldiers arrested Ona and sent her east to Siberia, where she spent seventeen years working on a collective farm. It was all a mistake, the family maintained. Some seventy years after these events, Šukys sat down to write about her grandparents and their survival of a twenty-five-year forced separation and subsequent reunion. Piecing the story together from letters, oral histories, audio recordings, and KGB documents, her research soon revealed a Holocaust-era secret—a family connection to the killing of seven hundred Jews in a small Lithuanian border town. According to KGB documents, the man in charge when those massacres took place was Anthony, Ona’s husband. In Siberian Exile Šukys weaves together the two narratives: the story of Ona, noble exile and innocent victim, and that of Anthony, accused war criminal. She examines the stories that communities tell themselves and considers what happens when the stories we’ve been told all our lives suddenly and irrevocably change, and how forgiveness operates across generations and the barriers of life and death.

Author : Rufin Piotrowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600027680

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The story of a Siberian exile. Followed by a narrative of recent events in Poland. Tr. from the French by Rufin Piotrowski Pdf

Author : Ben Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Exiles
ISBN : 0367224801

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Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825-1917 by Ben Phillips Pdf

Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile, often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. This book examines how Siberia's reputation came about and discusses the effects of this reputation in turning opinion, especially in Western countries, against the Tsarist regime and in giving rise to considerable sympathy for Russian radicals and revolutionaries. It considers the writings and propaganda of a large number of different émigré groups, explores American and British journalists' investigations and exposé press articles and charts the rise of the idea of Russian political prisoners as revolutionary and reformist heroes. Overall, the book demonstrates how important representations of Siberian exile were in shaping Western responses to the Russian Revolution.

Author : Ben Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000516159

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Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825–1917 by Ben Phillips Pdf

Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile, often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. This book examines how Siberia’s reputation came about and discusses the effects of this reputation in turning opinion, especially in Western countries, against the Tsarist regime and in giving rise to considerable sympathy for Russian radicals and revolutionaries. It considers the writings and propaganda of a large number of different émigré groups, explores American and British journalists’ investigations and exposé press articles and charts the rise of the idea of Russian political prisoners as revolutionary and reformist heroes. Overall, the book demonstrates how important representations of Siberian exile were in shaping Western responses to the Russian Revolution.

Author : Daniel Beer
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307958907

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The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer Pdf

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Rufin Piotrowski
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0331594633

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The Story of a Siberian Exile (Classic Reprint) by Rufin Piotrowski Pdf

Excerpt from The Story of a Siberian Exile Here is an expression in use in Poland which surpasses all that human eloquence has ever em ployed to give intensity to despair; it consists of the words 'we never meet again? And thus it is that any political exile, when about to depart for Siberia, takes leave of his family and of his friends; we nete'r meet again! For the only way in which an exile could find himself once more among those whom he loves would be for him to meet them in the same place of torment. The conviction is deep that they who are once transported to those regions of pain can quit them no more; that Siberia never relinquishes her prey. For nearly a century she has torn from Poland her most devoted women, her most generous sons. Back to those realms of snow and of blood fly the thoughts of every Pole who inquires into the past fortunes of his B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : A. Gentes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230583894

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Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822 by A. Gentes Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Badcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199641550

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A Prison Without Walls? by Sarah Badcock Pdf

A Prison Without Walls? presents a snapshot of daily life for exiles and their dependents in eastern Siberia during the very last years of the Tsarist regime, from the 1905 revolution to the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917. This was an extraordinary period in Siberia's history as a place of punishment. There was an unprecedented rise of Siberia's penal use in this fifteen-year window, and a dramatic increase in the number of exiles punished for political offences. This work focuses on the region of Eastern Siberia, taking the regions of Irkutsk and Yakutsk in north-eastern Siberia as its focal points. Siberian exile was the antithesis of Foucault's modern prison. The State did not observe, monitor, and control its exiles closely; often not even knowing where the exiles were. Exiles were free to govern their daily lives; free of fences and free from close observation and supervision, but despite these freedoms, Siberian exile represented one of Russia's most feared punishments. In this volume, Sarah Badcock seeks to humanise the individuals who made up the mass of exiles, and the men, women, and children who followed them voluntarily into exile. A Prison Without Walls? is structured in a broad narrative arc that moves from travel to exile, life and communities in exile, work and escape, and finally illness in exile. The book gives a personal, human, empathetic insight into what exilic experience entailed, and allows us to comprehend why eastern Siberia was regarded as a terrible punishment, despite its apparent freedoms.