Siberian exile and the invention of revolutionary Russia, 1825-1917 : exiles, émigrés and the international reception of Russian radicalism /

"Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile, often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. This book examines how Siberia's reputation came about and discu...

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Main Author: Phillips, Ben (Lecturer in Russian) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Series:BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 144.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on the text
  • Introduction
  • Siberian exile and Russian radical culture, 1825-1873
  • 'A Nihilist Kurort': Siberia in the Victorian imagination, c. 1830-1890
  • The Siberian agitation, 1890-1895
  • 'Apostles of the gospel of reform': prison, exile and the limits of revolutionary subjectivity, 1905-1917
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.