Siberia and the reforms of 1822.

by Marc Raeff

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Published 1956 by Washington University Press in Seattle .
Written in English

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Open Library	OL19644141M

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This paper examines three phases in the history of Siberia within the larger context of Russian history. It points out that following its conquest and annexation by Russia during the reign of Ivan IV (the Terrible), Siberia became a penal colony for criminal elements, book . Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, , Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from

Siberia and the Reforms of MARC WFF. (University of Washington Publications on Asia, The Far-Eastern and Russian Institute.) Seattle: University of Washhgton Press, xvii, pp., appendices. $ Reviewed by D. B. SHIMKIN, Washington, D. C. Raeff’s volume on the administration of Siberia in the early nineteenth century is. Fries was a Swiss doctor, whose book, “Reise Durch Sibirien” (“Travel in Siberia”), described a journey he made in and, incidentally, became one of the earliest books to use that. Great book. It really encapsulates how a history book about the people of a nation should read. Some may find the huge detail of the book a deterrent, but if you are looking for a book that truly analysis how the people of Siberia lived, felt and acted over years, this is the book for you/5(7).

The book called "Children of the Soviet Arctic" by Tikhon Semushkin, was one of many written by the "missionaries" of one of the cultural bases, and it is particularly startling, how the Russian people employed there, normally appearing friendly, tolerant and understanding of local (Chukchi) people and their customs, reacted against the local. Russia and Iran, Muriel Atkin Published by University of Minnesota Press Atkin, Muriel. Russia and Iran, University of Minnesota Press, Cited by: Siberia: A History of the People Janet M. Hartley Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries.