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A visceral, 100-yr background of the vast Russian penal colony. It was known as 'the vast prison without a roof'. Right from the start of the 19th century until the Russian Trend, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their own families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer illuminates both brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and motivating fates of those who endured it. Listed below are the vividly informed stories of petty criminals and mass murderers, bookish radicals and violent terrorists, fugitives and bounty hunters, and the innocent women and children who followed their husbands and fathers into exile. Siberia was designed to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals but also as a colony. Just as exile would purge Russia of its villains, so too would it purge villains of their vices. In theory Russia's most unruly criminals would be transformed into hardy frontiersmen and settlers. However in reality the system peopled Siberia with an military of destitute and eager vagabonds who stopped at a plague of offense on the indigenous people. Even the purpose of securing regulation and order in all of those other empire fulfilled with devastation: Expecting Siberia also to supply the ultimate quarantine against rebellion, the tsars condemned decades of republicans, nationalists, and socialists to oblivion thousands of kilometers from Moscow. Over the 19th century, however, these politics exiles transformed Siberia's mines, settlements, and penal forts into a online laboratory of trend. Exile became the defining experience for the women and men who would 1 day guideline the Soviet Union. Unearthing a treasure trove of new archival research, this masterly and original work explains to the epic storyline of Russia's struggle to govern its prison continent and Siberia's own decisive effect on the politics forces of the modern world. In The House of the Dead, Daniel Beer brings to light a deep and gripping actuality of mythic proportions.
