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100	1		_aWallance, Gregory, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aInto Siberia : _bGeorge Kennan's epic journey through the brutal, frozen heart of Russia / _cGregory J. Wallance.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSt. Martin's Press, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_axvi, 284 pages : _billustrations (black and white), maps, portraits ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_acartographic image _bcri _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
520			_a"In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. That changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and he learned of the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months, he traveled eight thousand miles, enduring sandstorms and blizzards. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies froze to death as their mothers held them. After returning to the United States, he set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the imprisoned, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to spread the truth of the Siberian exiles' suffering, intensifying the newly-emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries, which last to this day"-- _cDust jacket.
505	0		_aList of maps -- List of photographs and illustrations -- Chronology of relevant events in Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Author's note. Introduction -- Prologue: The bell of Uglich -- The frozen world from which even the favor of the creator had withdrawn -- As miserable as a young boy can be -- I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have not failed in anything -- The mountaineers of the Caucasus -- The making of a journalist -- It will really be a magnificent trip -- Every respiration seemed to pollute me to the very soul -- The exile system is worse than I believed it to be -- A Telega will simply jolt a man's soul out in twenty-four hours -- The mines of Kara -- There are people who intend to murder us -- Siberia and the exile system -- Epilogue: The changing of the guard -- Acknowledgments -- Selected bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
600	1	0	_aKennan, George, _d1845-1924 _xInfluence.
600	1	0	_aKennan, George, _d1845-1924 _xTravel _zRussia (Federation) _zSiberia.
600	1	0	_aKennan, George, _d1845-1924. _tSiberia and the exile system.
650		0	_aExiles _zRussia (Federation) _zSiberia.
651		0	_aSiberia (Russia) _xDescription and travel. _951945
650		0	_aAmericans _zRussia (Federation) _zSiberia.
650		0	_aJournalists _zUnited States _vBiography. _959780
651		0	_aUnited States _xRelations _zSoviet Union. _9117009
651		0	_aSoviet Union _xRelations _zUnited States. _9117008
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