The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer

The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer

Winner of the Cundill History Prize 

The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of "the vast prison without a roof" that was Russia's Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia's decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.

Daniel Beer is a Reader in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written widely on nineteenth-century Russia and is the author of Renovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930.

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ISBN 13	9780307949264
ISBN 10	0307949265
Title	The House of the Dead
Author	Daniel Beer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2017-12-12
Number of pages	512
Prizes	Winner of Cundill History Prize 2017, Short-listed for Wolfson History Prize 2017
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