Siberia – A History of the People - Softcover

Hartley, Janet M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300246420 ISBN 13: 9780300246421

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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 Hartely 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 labour in the 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 humanised through personal narratives and colourful case studies, as ordinary - and extraordinary - everyday life in 'the nothingness' is presented in rich and fascinating detail. 

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0300246420
• ISBN 13: 9780300246421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312