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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Beer, Daniel.     Subjects     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Beer, Daniel.       by title:      The house of the dea...       by call number:      364.60957 B415h     Search the Web     Beer, Daniel.     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.       MARC Display

The house of the dead : Siberian exile under the tsars / Daniel Beer. by Beer, Daniel. Alfred A. Knopf, c2017. Call #: 364.60957 B415h Subjects 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. ISBN:  9780307958907 0307958906 Edition:  1st. Amer. ed. Description:  xxii, 464 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Notes:  "This is a Borzoi book." "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2016"--T.p. verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-437) and index. Contents:  The bell of Uglich -- Origins of exile -- The boundary post -- Broken swords -- The mines of Nerchinsk -- The Decembrist Republic -- Sybiracy -- The penal fort -- "In the name of freedom!" -- General Cuckoo's army -- Sakhalin Island -- The lash -- "Woe to the vanquished!" -- The shrinking continent -- The crucible -- Red Siberia. 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. It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof.' From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Here are the vividly told stories of petty criminals and mass murderers, bookish radicals and violent terrorists, fugitives and bounty hunters, and the innocent women and children who followed their husbands and fathers into exile. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals but also as a colony. Just as exile would purge Russia of its villains so too would it purge villains of their vices. In theory, Russia's most unruly criminals would be transformed into hardy frontiersmen and settlers. But in reality, the system peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population. Even the aim of securing law and order in the rest of the Empire met with disaster: Expecting Siberia also to provide the ultimate quarantine against rebellion, the tsars condemned generations of republicans, nationalists and socialists to oblivion thousands of kilometers from Moscow. Over the nineteenth century, however, these political exiles transformed Siberia's mines, settlements and penal forts into a virtual laboratory of revolution. Exile became the defining experience for the men and women who would one day rule the Soviet Union. Unearthing a treasure trove of new archival evidence, this masterly and original work tells the epic story of Russia's struggle to govern its prison continent and Siberia's own decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.60957 B415h Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.60957 B415h Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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