Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822
Subtitle: corporeal commodification and administrative systematization in Russia
By: Andrew Armand Gentes.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780230536937
Subjects: Exile (Punishment) -- Russia -- History; Exiles -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia -- History; Russia -- Social conditions -- To 1801
Description: "Government and civilian authorities in Russia deported tens of thousands of people to Siberia between 1590 and 1822. The state had several goals for exiles including using them as cossacks, peasants, industrial laborers, and colonial settlers. Landowners and peasant communes used exile to rid themselves of elderly, handicapped, or troublesome serfs. Siberia was also the destination for thousands of political opponents and religious dissidents. This, the first English-language study of pre-Soviet exile, focuses on Russian Siberia's early years, when its role as an open-air prison was established. Populated by such notable rulers and officials as Boris Godunov, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and Mikhail Speranskii, and such celebrated exiles as Archpriest Avvakum, Aleksandr Menshikov, Maurice Benyowsky, and Aleksandr Radishchev, Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822 vividly explores the coercive and violent relationship between an evolving bureaucratic state and its body politic."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the universal experience of exile; title: To where the sovereign chooses?; title: Exile to the service in which he will be useful; title: Punishment for insignificant crimes; title: Whoever's not with us is against us; title: Only Ermak can compete with me; title: Conclusion : Siberian exile and biopolitics.