- Provides the first comprehensive study of the mass deportation following the 1863 Polish Uprising of Poles to Siberia
- Combines analysis of government policies and procedures with a social and biographical approach
- Utilises archival documents from Siberia and the former Western Provinces
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- About this book
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This book concerns the mass deportation of Poles and others to Siberia following the failed 1863 Polish Insurrection. The imperial Russian government fell back upon using exile to punish the insurrectionists and to cleanse Russia’s Western Provinces of ethnic Poles. It convoyed some 20,000 inhabitants of the Kingdom of Poland and the Western Provinces across the Urals to locations as far away as Iakutsk, and assigned them to penal labor or forced settlement. Yet the government’s lack of infrastructure and planning doomed this operation from the start, and the exiles found ways to resist their subjugation. Based upon archival documents from Siberia and the former Western Provinces, this book offers an unparalleled exploration of the mass deportation. Combining social history with an analysis of statecraft, it is a unique contribution to scholarship on the history of Poland and the Russian Empire.
- About the authors
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Andrew A. Gentes is the author of Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822 (Palgrave, 2008) and Exile, Murder, and Madness in Siberia, 1823-61 (Palgrave, 2010), as well as numerous articles. His translations include P. F. Iakubovich’s In the World of the Outcasts: Notes of a Former Penal Laborer (2014).
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-16
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Siberian Exile, 1590–1863
Pages 17-35
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The 1863 January Uprising
Pages 37-73
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Suppression, Deportation, and Debate
Pages 75-99
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The Insurrectionists Arrive in Siberia
Pages 101-127
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia, 1863-1880
- Authors
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- Andrew A. Gentes
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-60958-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-60958-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-60957-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86969-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 262
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations
- Topics
