A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony.
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...
A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony.
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. In The House of the Dead, Daniel Beer brings to light a dark and gripping reality of mythic proportions.
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DANIEL BEER is senior lecturer in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written widely on nineteenth-century Russia and is the author of Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930.
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4 有用 Nussknacker 2019-08-25 01:55:32
Miserable...我都开始做噩梦梦到knout了…十二月党、老陀和库页岛那几章印象很深。Epilogue的讽刺挺苦涩的，所以作者你可以写一本续集Siberian Exile Under the Bolsheviks吗？
1 有用 叉叉 2024-01-05 21:03:11 浙江
真的不怪俄罗斯文学苦大仇深，作家们谁还没被流放过
1 有用 多喜子 2021-07-11 22:25:32
一部关于从十九世纪初到二十世纪初，跨越百年的西伯利亚流放地的历史。被流放者的苦难、不幸、面对的不公，和与之对立的沙皇政府、巨大且低效的行政机器… 太多章节的内容让人读得触目惊心… 讽刺的是，当十月革命之后上台的布尔什维克，其中不乏西伯利亚流亡回归之辈，在声讨沙皇时期的流放制度之非人性的同时，开始了可以说更加变本加厉的新流放制度。头一次读俄罗斯历史，因为需要的背景知识并不太多（这本书总的来说自成一体... 一部关于从十九世纪初到二十世纪初，跨越百年的西伯利亚流放地的历史。被流放者的苦难、不幸、面对的不公，和与之对立的沙皇政府、巨大且低效的行政机器… 太多章节的内容让人读得触目惊心… 讽刺的是，当十月革命之后上台的布尔什维克，其中不乏西伯利亚流亡回归之辈，在声讨沙皇时期的流放制度之非人性的同时，开始了可以说更加变本加厉的新流放制度。头一次读俄罗斯历史，因为需要的背景知识并不太多（这本书总的来说自成一体），读起来感觉不错；同时也能很强烈地感受到作者如何将史料整合、组织成他的叙述。计划找些俄罗斯历史的其他时期的书来读读！说起来这本是三次元友邻去年送的生日礼物 :) 当时拿到的时候迟迟没有兴趣打开，最近开始读才发现扉页还有祝福语呢！感谢友邻赠书与推荐！！ (展开)