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Author Beer, Daniel, author.

Title The house of the dead : Siberian exile under the tsars / Daniel Beer.

Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

ISBN 9780307958907
0307958906



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Edition First United States edition, First American edition.
Description xxii, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 25 cm
Local Note rw
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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.
Subject(S) Exile (Punishment) -- Russia -- History.
Exile (Punishment) -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History.
Exiles -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History.
Political prisoners -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History.
Penal colonies -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History.
Convict labor -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History.
Revolutionaries -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History.
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 19th century.
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- 20th century.
Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917.
Added Title Siberian exile under the tsars
ISBN 9780307958907
0307958906