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A carregar... The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (original 2017; edição 2017)por Daniel Beer (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I came across this book while of all things reading a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche. There was reference to Dostoevsky's book of fiction/non-fiction of the similar title. So it peaked my curiosity and I thought I would give it a go. The book covers roughly 100 years of the Czarist regimes efforts to deport to and also populate the remote and forbidding recesses of the vast Siberian expanse of Asia. Starting around the Decembrist uprising to the full Bolshevik revolution of 1917. A grim story of suffering and anguish for so many that suffered the fate of banishment and penal servitude. This encompassed a variety of offenders from street criminals and murderers to political dissidents and revolutionaries. Many paid with their lives but even more astonishingly many more survived. Yet few ever made it back to European Russia. The many accounts and ordeals of these unfortunates play out in a never ending procession leading at some point to almost monotony. And the end result was that despite their oppression the tide eventually turned as the aristocracy was itself obliterated. Lesson learned. Or was it, as this was simply replaced with the intensified version of the Soviet answer to opposition on an even greater scale. The Russian "Exile System" during the 19th century was a fraction of the size of the more famous Gulag system under the Soviets in th 20th. They were not exactly the same but both systems solved two problems: how to deal with "sedition" (political agitators) and criminals; and how to obtain labor for resource extraction (mines and lumber). For the Tsar's in the early 19th century the solution was simple and obvious - send the rabble to Siberia to be forgotten. It worked for a while but by the 1860s the contradictions and public outrage began to undermine its legitimacy. What started as a good idea lasted far longer than it should have at huge human cost and arguably was an accelerant of the Russian Revolution. Many famous books have been written by Exiles in the 19th century including Dostoevsky's The House of the Dead (1860). Lenin spent three years in an exile camp. Checkhov wrote a series of articles later published as a book Sakhalin Island. The thread of exile runs long and deep in Russian history. What this history teaches is how a fundamentally inhumane system that almost everyone agrees is wrong can still become self-reinforcing and impossible to dismantle for economic and political reasons, a problem that continues to this day in many forms and places. A modern example of this is described in the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. From the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer's new book, The House of the Dead, brings to life both the brutal realities of an inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. This is the vividly told history of common criminals and political radicals, the victims of serfdom and village politics, the wives and children who followed husbands and fathers, and of fugitives and bounty-hunters. Siberia served two masters: colonization and punishment. In theory, exiles would discover the virtues of self-reliance, abstinence and hard work and, in so doing, they would develop Siberia's natural riches and bind it more firmly to Russia. In reality, the autocracy banished an army not of hardy colonists but of half-starving, desperate vagabonds. The tsars also looked on Siberia as creating the ultimate political quarantine from the contagions of revolution. Generations of rebels - republicans, nationalists and socialists - were condemned to oblivion thousands of kilometres from European Russia. Over the nineteenth century, however, these political exiles transformed Siberia's mines, prisons and remote settlements into an enormous laboratory of revolution. This masterly work of original research taps a mass of almost unknown primary evidence held in Russian and Siberian archives to tell the epic story of both Russia's struggle to govern its monstrous penal colony and Siberia's ultimate, decisive impact on the political forces of the modern world. Daniel Beer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930, 2008. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The individual chapters read as lectures, without much narrative glue but the chapters together do illustrate the terrible tale. So many endless, thwarted upstarts and revolutionaries. ( )