{"product_id":"the-house-of-the-dead-siberian-exile-under-the-tsars-9780307949264","title":"The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Cundill History Prize \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of \"the vast prison without a roof\" that was Russia's Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eThe House of the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia's decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Beer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307949264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Beer is a Reader in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written widely on nineteenth-century Russia and is the author of \u003ci\u003eRenovating Russia: The Human Sciences and the Fate of Liberal Modernity, 1880-1930\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44478668767347,"sku":"9780307949264","price":24.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_0c447354-cc21-4190-bb29-250df4d19d3e.jpg?v=1774440874","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-house-of-the-dead-siberian-exile-under-the-tsars-9780307949264","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}