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Author Beer, Daniel, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  947.08 BEER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  364.6 BEER    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  364.6 BEE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  947.08 BEER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  947.08 BEE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  364.6 BE    Check Shelf
Edition First United States edition.
Description xxii, 464 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-437) and index.
Summary A one hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony of Siberia chronicles how more than a million criminals, revolutionaries, and activists were exiled into what became a brutal colony also populated by family members, fugitives, terrorists, and bounty hunters.
Subject 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.
ISBN 9780307958907 (hardcover)
0307958906 (hardcover)
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