Cover; A Prison without Walls? Eastern Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; Figures; Maps; Russian Translations, Transliterations, and Terms; 1: Introduction: A Prison without Walls?; THE PLACE OF SIBERIA IN RUSSIA; EXILE NUMBERS AND CATEGORIES IN EASTERN SIBERIA; THE IMPACT OF EXILES ON SIBERIA; RUSSIAN PUNISHMENT IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT; APPROACHES TO SIBERIAN EXILE; 2: The Journey: Travel and Prisons; THE FIRST STAGES: GETTING TO ALEKSANDROVSK; DAILY LIFE IN ALEKSANDROVSK; READING AND EDUCATION IN PRISON
POLITICALS AND CRIMINALSWOMEN IN AND OUT OF PRISON; CHILDREN; THE FINAL STAGES; CONCLUSIONS; 3: Life in Exile: Communities of the Punished; EXILE DESTINATIONS; MATERIAL CONDITIONS IN EXILE; BROADER COMMUNITY AMONG EXILES; EXILES AND THE NATIVE SIBERIAN POPULATION; INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS; CHILDREN; CONCLUSIONS; 4: 'Taming the Wild Taiga': Work and Escape in Siberian Exile; PATTERNS OF EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE URBAN-RURAL NEXUS; ROAD AND RAIL CONSTRUCTION; AGRICULTURAL WORK; ESCAPE; CONCLUSIONS; 5: Illness and Death in Siberian Exile; TYPES AND RATES OF ILLNESS
ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS INFLUENCING SICKNESS AND HEALTHMENTAL HEALTH; TREATMENT AND CARE OF PRISONERS; VOLUNTARY FOLLOWERS; CONCLUSIONS; Afterword: Endings and Beginnings; Bibliography; ARCHIVAL SOURCES CONSULTED; The National Archive of the Sakha Republic (NARS); The State Archive of Irkutsk Oblast (GAIO); The Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI); The State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF); State Archive of the Russian Far East (GADV); The State Archive of Nizhegorod region (GANO); The National Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan (NART); NEWSPAPERS CONSULTED
Summary
Presents a snapshot of daily life for exiles and their dependents in eastern Siberia during the very last years of the Tsarist regime, from the 1905 revolution to the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917, showing that, although exiles weren't closely monitored by the State, Siberian exile was still one of Russia's most feared punishments
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 20, 2016)
