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The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia, 1863-1880

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  1. Andrew A. Gentes

    1. Alstead, USA

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  • 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

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 1-16

  3. Siberian Exile, 1590–1863

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 17-35

  4. The 1863 January Uprising

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 37-73

  5. Suppression, Deportation, and Debate

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 75-99

  6. The Insurrectionists Arrive in Siberia

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 101-127

  7. Forced Settlers

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 129-149

  8. Katorga

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 151-175

  9. Resistance and the Baikal Circle-Road Revolt

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 177-202

  10. Amnesties, Repatriations, and Other Fates

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 203-229

  11. Conclusion

    • Andrew A. Gentes
    Pages 231-237

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-262
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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.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Alstead, USA

    Andrew A. Gentes

About the author

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).

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