Siberia and the Exile System 2 Volume Set
Siberia and the Exile System 2 Volume Set
£80.99
GBPThe 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, and speaks to some political exiles. In Volume 2, he travels to the infamous convict mines of the Trans-Baikal region.
Product details
June 2012Multiple copy pack
9781108048262
1024 pages
216 × 140 × 58 mm
1.39kg
192 b/w illus. 6 maps
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. From St Petersburg to Perm
- 2. Across the Siberian frontier
- 3. The flowery plains of Tobólsk
- 4. The Tiumén forwarding prison
- 5. A Siberian convict barge
- 6. First impressions of post travel
- 7. The great KÃrghis steppe
- 8. Our first meeting with political exiles
- 9. Bridle paths of the Altái
- 10. Two colonies of political exiles
- 11. Exile by administrative process
- 12. The Province and the City of Tomsk
- 13. The Tomsk forwarding prison
- 14. The life of political exiles
- 15. The great Siberian road
- 16. Deportation by étape. Volume 2:
- 1. Prisons and exiles in Irkútsk
- 2. Under police surveillance
- 3. A visit to the SelengÃnsk lamasery
- 4. A ride through the Trans-Bailál
- 5. The convict mines of Kará
- 6. The Kará 'Free command'
- 7. State criminals at Kará
- 8. The history of the Kará political prison
- 9. The silver mines of Nérchinsk
- 10. Adventures in Eastern Siberia
- 11. The great Siberian road in winter
- 12. Our last days in Siberia
- 13. The character of political exiles
- 14. Evils and projected reforms
- Appendixes
- Index.
