Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849–1917 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849–1917 write by Andrew A. Gentes. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849–1917 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis, existence, and demise of Imperial Russia’s largest penal colony, made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there in 1890. Based on extensive original research in archival documents, published reports, and memoirs, the book is also a social history of the late imperial bureaucracy and of the subaltern society of criminals and exiles; an examination of the tsarist state’s failed efforts at reform; an exploration of Russian imperialism in East Asia and Russia’s acquisition of Sakhalin Island in the face of competition from Japan; and an anthropological and literary study of the Sakhalin landscape and its associated values and ideologies. The Sakhalin penal colony became one of the largest penal colonies in history. The book’s conclusion prompts important questions about contemporary prisons and their relationship to state and society.
Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East
Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East write by Vlas Doroshevich. This book was released on 2011. Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin"' is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich's 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia's largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific. Despite the publication of Anton Chekhov's account of his visit to Sakhalin in 1890, many Russians remained unaware of the brutality and savagery of the 'devil island'. In 1897 Doroshevich, Russia's most popular journalist, travelled to Sakhalin and spent three months touring the island, interviewing numerous prisoners and officials, and recording his impressions. The feuilletons he wired back to his publishers were eventually collected and published in book form in 1903, under the title 'Sakhalin' (Katorga). Doroshevich's book was enormously popular when it first appeared, and it continues to be published in Russia, as a historical record of the striking barbarity of late nineteenth century penal practices. Despite this popularity, it has never before been translated into English, and Doroshevich remains largely unknown outside Russia. This translation introduces English-language readers to an important writer and original stylist who defined journalistic practice during the years leading up to the 1917 Revolution, by way of a book which helps explain the causes for that revolution.
Eight Years on Sakhalin
Eight Years on Sakhalin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eight Years on Sakhalin write by Ivan P. Iuvachev. This book was released on 2022-01-11. Eight Years on Sakhalin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1887, following several years’ imprisonment for his role in the People’s Will terrorist group, Ivan P. Iuvachëv was exiled with other political prisoners to the notorious Sakhalin penal colony. The penal colony emerged during the late 1860s and 1870s and collapsed in 1905, under the weight of Japan’s invasion of Sakhalin. The eight years between 1887 and 1895 that Iuvachëv spent on the island were some of the most tumultuous in the penal colony’s existence. Originally published in 1901, his memoir offers a first-hand account of this netherworld that embodied the extremities of tsarist Russian penality. A valuable historical document as well as a work of literature testifying to one man’s ability to retain his humanity amid a sea of human degradation, this annotated translation marks the first time Iuvachëv’s memoir has appeared in any language besides Russian.
To the Far North
To the Far North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To the Far North write by Ivan Nikolaevich Akif’ëv. This book was released on 2024-04-15. To the Far North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition to the Chukotka Peninsula to find gold. No other account so richly details life along the North Pacific Rim before World War I, especially from a Russian perspective. This volume relates the expedition's formation, development, and aftermath and offers unique insights on the region's place in both Russian policymaking and geopolitics. The illustrated diary includes picturesque descriptions of San Francisco, the Nome Gold Rush, Chukchi culture, Petropavlovsk, Vladivostok, and Nagasaki, Japan. Andrew A. Gentes's translation is based on an edition of Akifëv's book that was published in St. Petersburg in 1904. The diary shows how Russian and American views and cultural values clashed over a territory that is today more geopolitically important than ever. By documenting Akifëv's personal travels outside the expedition, To the Far North also demonstrates, in both human and personal terms, the role Russians played in shaping this region's history.
Prisoners of Russia
Prisoners of Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prisoners of Russia write by Benjamin Douglas Howard. This book was released on 1902. Prisoners of Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
