Siberia - Janet Hartley

Siberia
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Autor: Janet Hartley

 Wydawnictwo: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300167948
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 352
Data wydania: 2014-07-01
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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 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 labour 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 colourful case studies, as ordinary - and extraordinary - everyday life in "the nothingness" is presented in rich and fascinating detail. 'In this vivid, carefully researched and authoritative work.

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Janet Hartley