Siberia: A History of the People - Rilegato

Hartley, Janet M.

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ISBN 10: 0300167946 ISBN 13: 9780300167948

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

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. Janet M. Hartley explores the history of this vast Russian wasteland—whose very name is a common euphemism for remote bleakness and exile—through the lives of the people who settled there, either willingly, desperately, or as prisoners condemned to exile or forced labor in mines or the gulag.

From the Cossack adventurers’ first incursions into “Sibir” in the late sixteenth century to the exiled criminals and political prisoners of the Soviet era to present-day impoverished Russians and entrepreneurs seeking opportunities in the oil-rich north, Hartley’s comprehensive history offers a vibrant, profoundly human account of Siberia’s development. One of the world’s most inhospitable regions is humanized through personal narratives and colorful case studies as ordinary—and extraordinary—everyday life in “the nothingness” is presented in rich and fascinating detail.

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L'autore:

Janet M. Hartley is professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300167946
• ISBN 13: 9780300167948
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 289