Exile to Siberia, 1590–1822

Gentes, Andrew A.

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“…It is critical to understand that Siberia (Akaha, 1997;Davis, 2003;Forsyth, 1992;Gentes, 2008;Groisman & Gutman, 2013;Hill & Gaddy, 2003;Hudgins, 2003;Jordan & Jordan-Bychkov;Naumov, 2006;Wood, 2011) and Russian Arctic are one of the richest regions in the world in terms of its petroleum, natural gas, coal and mineral resources. It also has immense geopolitical importance.…”

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Connecting Eurasia and the Americas: Geopolitical Implications of the Bering Strait Crossing in the Age of Globalization

Erdem

2014

International Conference on Eurasian Economies 2014

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The Bering Strait crossing would link the entirety of Eurasia to the entirety of the Americas. There are some immense geopolitical benefits of such project. It would bring about a deep and lasting change to global economic outlook. A possible tunnel under the Bering Strait and extension of the railroad network could open vast areas of Siberia containing mineral deposits necessary for global economic growth. According to a number of respectable Russian geologists, Siberia/the Arctic region is home to considerable amount of minerals and fossil fuels. The most valued function of the Bering Strait rail system would be to release those vast natural resources trapped underneath the tundra and permafrost for the benefit of Russia and the world. These resources can be used for global economic development. Moreover, the rail project would also build development corridors in the underdeveloped parts of Russian Siberia. The development of those resources in question and their rapid transportation to the global markets can contribute to overall development of Siberia. This paper will explore/evaluate the possible benefits of the Bering Strait crossing from Russian perspective and Russia’s new role in the Arctic region, under the frame of geopolitics.

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Connecting Eurasia and the Americas: Geopolitical Implications of the Bering Strait Crossing in the Age of Globalization

Erdem

2014

International Conference on Eurasian Economies 2014

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“…The Gulag was also preceded by a system of exile and prison camps that had existed in Siberia for more than 300 years (see e.g. Badcock 2016, Beer 2016, Gentes 2008, Wood 2011. Following the Battle of Poltava in 1709, for example, when Peter the Great defeated the Swedes, it is estimated that about 25,000 Swedish soldiers were banished to Siberia (Jonsson andSalytjeva 2009, Villstrand 2011: 212-15).…”

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Writing vulnerable worlds: Siberian exile and the anthropology of world-making

Viktorin¹

2022

Literature and the Making of the World

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On his descent through Hell, close to its bottom, Dante comes upon a giant locked up in chains. Virgil, who serves as Dante's guide, identifies him as Nimrod, the Hebrew king who instigated the building of the Tower of Babel, and explains the horrible punishment the giant has to endure as a result: 'this is Nimrod, through whose wicked thought / one single language cannot serve the world. / Leave him alone -let's not waste time in talk; / for every language is to him the same / as his to others -no one knows his tongue' (Inferno xxxi: 77-81). Nimrod himself utters but one unintelligible sentence -'Raphael mai amech izabi almi' (ibid.: 67) -before Dante and Virgil move along, leaving him as they found him: banished from the face of the earth, despairing, outside of time, in complete linguistic isolation. 1 Towards the end of the nineteenth century more than 300,000 people were living in exile or in prison camps in Siberia. Most of them were illiterate and without means to let the outside world know about their fates. '[T]his should all be written up! Only, no one's writin' it … I'll die, 'n' so ever'thin'll disappear, like it ne' er happened' , one penal labourer lamented (quoted in Iakubovich [1895][1896][1897][1898] 2015: 175). Yet some prisoners did write about their experiences, and attempted to speak also on behalf of those whose own words failed: to let a wider public know what life was like 'in the world of the outcasts' -an expression that was used as a title for one prominent autobiography (Iakubovich [1895(Iakubovich [ -1898(Iakubovich [ ] 2014(Iakubovich [ , 2015. Others travelled voluntarily to Siberia to witness and document the realities of the exile system. Several such writers made references to Dante's pilgrimage. 'I 3

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“…Most exiles were simply unable or unwilling to engage in farming and therefore resorted to begging, prostitution and petty thievery to survive. Many others who escaped through prisons' and factories' notoriously porous walls were rapists and ISSN 0263-4937 print/ISSN 1465-3354 online # 2011 Southseries Inc http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2011.602547 http://www.tandfonline.com murderers and, in some cases, serial killers, who went on rampages that led to Siberia having a crime rate many times higher than that of the empire as a whole (Gentes 2008a(Gentes , 2010.…”

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Vagabondage and the Tsarist Siberian exile system: power and resistance in the penal landscape

Gentes

2011

Central Asian Survey

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Between 1827 and 1846 Russia exiled as vagrants (brodiagi) to Siberia 48,566 persons, who accounted for 30.4% -the single largest cohort -of exiles during that period. Exiled brodiagi's numbers fell briefly after 1846, due to government efforts to use them in labour battalions, but reached unprecedented levels following serf emancipation. This, like other anti-vagrancy campaigns, was symptomatic of states' increasing domination over society and highlights a modernizing process that prohibits nomadism while promoting sedentariness. Yet, although brodiagi were produced by the state's exercise of power, they managed to display agency by resisting this power. The resultant struggle led to Siberia being turned into contested ground. Embodied within this struggle was the larger struggle between tsarist state and society: operating at the edges of society, in a region far removed, or 'deranged', from the centre, Siberia's brodiagi manifested, both territorially and behaviourally, the 'extremities' that Foucault has spoken of with regard to power, how it functions and how it is resisted.

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Exile to Siberia, 1590–1822

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Connecting Eurasia and the Americas: Geopolitical Implications of the Bering Strait Crossing in the Age of Globalization

Connecting Eurasia and the Americas: Geopolitical Implications of the Bering Strait Crossing in the Age of Globalization

Writing vulnerable worlds: Siberian exile and the anthropology of world-making

Vagabondage and the Tsarist Siberian exile system: power and resistance in the penal landscape

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