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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2013
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1891
Online ISBN:
9781139225052
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139225052
Subjects:
Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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The 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 2, he travels to the infamous convict mines of the Trans-Baikal region, and also discusses the extensive police surveillance system he observed while in Russia.

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