Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825-1917: Exiles, Émigrés and the International Reception of Russian Radicalism

ISBN-13: 9780367224806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str.

Ben Phillips

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Siberian exile and Russian radical culture, 1825-1873 2. ‘A Nihilist Kurort’: Siberia in the Victorian imagination, c. 1830-1890 3. The Siberian agitation, 1890-1895 4. ‘Apostles of the gospel of reform’: Prison, exile and the limits of revolutionary subjectivity, 1905-1917 Conclusion

O autorze

Ben Phillips is a Lecturer in Russian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Exeter