Stressing the relationship between tsarism's service-state ethos and its utilization of subjects, this study argues that economic and political, rather than judicial or penological, factors primarily conditioned Siberian exile's growth and development.

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ANDREW ARMAND GENTES earned his doctorate from Brown University, US in 2002. He teaches courses on Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, the Western World, and theory and methodology at the University of Queensland, Australia, and has published articles and book chapters on Siberian exile and other topics. This is his first book.

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Book Title: Exile to Siberia, 1590-1822
Authors: Andrew A. Gentes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583894
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53693-7Published: 30 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35869-4Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58389-4Published: 30 April 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 271
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Political History, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, European History, History of Early Modern Europe, Modern History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: The Universal Experience of Exile

‘To where the Sovereign Chooses…’

‘Exile to the Service in which he will be Useful’

‘Punishment for Insignificant Crimes’

‘Whoever’s not with us is Against us’

‘Only Ermak can Compete with Me’

Conclusion: ‘Siberian Exile and Biopolitics’

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