Siberia and the Exile System
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
ISBN-10
1108048226
ISBN-13
9781108048224
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 26th, 2012
Print length
432 Pages
Weight
54 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.60 x 3.40 cms
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The American journalist and expert on Russia George Kennan (1854–1924) went to Siberia to examine the infamous tsarist penal system there, and this vivid account was published in two volumes in 1891. In Volume 1 Kennan visits the holding prison of Tyumen and talks to political exiles.
The American journalist George Kennan (1854–1924) spent many years travelling in and writing about Russia. After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, Kennan wanted to go to Siberia to examine the penal system and the punishment of political exiles. In this unflinching account, published in two volumes in 1891, Kennan gives vivid descriptions, accompanied by extensive illustrations of the prisons and labour camps and the harsh lives of the people forced to live there. This journey also led to a personal transformation for Kennan himself - he started out as a supporter of the tsarist government but when he returned to the United States, he had become an advocate of political revolution in Russia. In Volume 1, he inspects the overcrowded holding prison of Tyumen, where everyone banished to Siberia was forced to stay before redeployment, and he later speaks to some political exiles.
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