A Prison without Walls? : Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last years of Tsarism / Sarah Badcock.

Author
Badcock, Sarah, 1974- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
viii, 195 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    This book 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 aplace 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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: a prison without walls?
    • The journey: travel and prisons
    • Life in exile: communities of the punished
    • 'Taming the wild taiga': work and escape in Siberian exile
    • Illness and death in Siberian exile.
    Other title(s)
    Eastern Siberian exile in the last years of tsarism
    ISBN
    • 9780199641550 ((hardback))
    • 0199641552 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2016940583
    OCLC
    962242088
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