THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD: SIBERIAN EXILE UNDER THE TSARS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B84234
English Summary/英文概要： THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD is the first sweeping social and cultural history of exile and imprisonment in Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Between the coronation of Nicholas I in 1825 and the abdication of Nicholas II, more than one million Russians were banished to prisons, forts, mines and settlements in the vast territories of Siberia. They hailed from all levels of tsarist society: peasants expelled from their communities, dangerous criminals, duelling aristocrats, writers, student activists, revolutionaries and innocent victims of intrigues and miscarriages of justice, many of whom were accompanied by their families into exile.
Beer skilfully weaves the tales of their crimes and punishments in Siberia to offer up a panorama of Russian society in the final turbulent century of Tsarist rule, but also traces the roots of the October 1917 revolution in the repression of Imperial Russia: many of the Bolsheviks, including Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, were themselves exiled to Siberia in the 1890s or 1900s. The violent, brutal, and brutalising conditions experienced there make a heartrending story, but also serve to reveal the dark inner workings of the Tsarist state and the incompetence and venality of Imperial bureaucracy, the predecessor to the Gulag.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书是第一部详尽描述19世纪、20世纪初西伯利亚流放及关押的社会及文化历史作品。
在1825年尼古拉斯一世加冕至尼古拉斯二世退位期间，100多万俄罗斯人被流放到广袤的西伯利亚的监狱、要塞、矿场和定居点。他们来自沙皇社会的各个阶层，包括农民、罪犯、贵族、作家、学生活动价、革命者和无辜的受害者，大部分人都是和家人一起被流放至此的。
作者巧妙地将这些人的罪行和在西伯利亚收到的惩罚交织在一起，描绘了沙皇统治最后的动荡阶段俄国社会的全景，同时追溯了1917年俄国十月革命的根源。包括列宁、托洛茨基、斯大林在内的许多布尔什维克都曾在19世纪90年代和20世纪初被流放到了西伯利亚。那里暴力、残忍的环境造就了一段回肠荡气的历史，同时也揭示了沙皇帝国黑暗的内部运作、帝国官僚体系的无能和腐败。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017
THE TIMES, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016
Daniel Beer won the 2017 Cundill History Prize last week ( https://www.cundillprize.com/ ), the richest prize in non-fiction for a single work in English.
Here is a piece on Daniel’s win from Publishing Perspectives: https://publishingperspectives.com/2017/11/cundill-2017-winner-announced-in-montreal/
His book has also been shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize, The Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. and the Longman History Today Prize, 2017.
Winner of the Cundhill History Prize 2017; shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2017, The Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2017 and the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2017; and The Times, Spectator, BBC History and TLS Books of the Year.
About the Author/作者介绍： Daniel Beer，伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院现代欧洲史讲师。其著作《ENOVATING RUSSIA: the Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930》(Cornell University Press, 2008)赢得了广泛赞誉。他在主要学术期刊和《History Today》上发表了多篇有关19世纪和20世纪早期俄国犯罪、宗教、恐怖主义和性别等主题的文章。
Daniel Beer is currently a lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the author of the acclaimed RENOVATING RUSSIA: the Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930 (Cornell University Press, 2008). He has published several articles on crime, religion, terrorism and sexuality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia in leading scholarly journals as well as History Today.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Penguin Press; US: Knopf; Brazil: Companhia Das Letras; China: Ginkgo; Germany: Fischer; Italy: Mondadori; Poland: Literackie; The Netherlands: Het Spectrum
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