Andrew A. Gentes

Russia's Sakhalin Penal Colony, 1849-1917 (eBook, ePUB)

Imperialism and Exile

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a comprehensive history of the genesis, existence, and demise of Imperial Russia's largest penal colony, made famous by Chekhov in a book written following his visit there in 1890.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000378597
• Artikelnr.: 62113370

Autorenporträt

Andrew A. Gentes earned his doctorate in history from Brown University and works as an independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Busse Expedition, 1853-54 2. Far East Expansion, Coal,
and Convicts 3. Transgressing Borders 4. The Collapse of Katorga and the
Free Colonists 5. Establishing the Sakhalin Penal Colony 6. Desperate Times
and the "Sakhalin" Company 7. A Contested Landscape and the GTU 8. The
Volunteer Fleet 9. The 1880s 10. Political Exiles 11. Chekhov's Island
(Part 1) 12. Chekhov's Island (Part 2) 13. Sakhalin and the Trans-Siberian
Railroad 14. The Satrapy 15. The Runaway Penal Colony 16. The Ministry of
Justice Takes Over 17. A Demography of the Sakhalin Penal Colony 18. The
Liapunov Administration 19. The Doctors' Fight 20. Women, Children, and the
Last Political Exiles 21. Sakhalin's Prisons 22. The Penal Colony as
International Cause Célèbre 23. Denouement Conclusion