Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Geography, Penality, Power and Resistance The Surge: Exile and Crime in Siberia Administering Exile: Malfeasance, Corruption, and Failure Political Exile and the Martyrdom of the Decembrists Extraordinary Decembrists: Chizhov, Lutskii and Lunin Paranoia and Conspiracy: Polish Exiles and the Omsk Affair Exile to Settlement Katorga and the 1845 Ulozhenie Conclusion: Aesthetics, Delusions, Conclusions Notes Bibliography



