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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars

by Daniel Beer

A visceral, hundred-year history of the vast Russian penal colony. It was known as ‘the vast prison without a roof.’ From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than one million prisoners and their families beyond the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhu

Publisher

Vintage

Publication date

Dec 12, 2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

512

ISBN

9780307949264