Russia's penal colony in the Far East : a translation of Vlas Doroshevich's "Sakhalin" / / translated and annotated by Andrew A. Gentes [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458895403321
• Autore: Doroshevich V. M (Vlas Mikhaĭlovich), <1864-1922, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-283-37786-1; 9786613377869; 1-84331-821-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxii, 477 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
• Disciplina: 365/.34
• Soggetti: Prisons - Russia (Federation) - Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) - History; Forced labor - Russia (Federation) - Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ) - History; Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Description and travel
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Portraits of Sakhalin -- First impressions -- The infirmary -- The Katorga cemetery -- A day in prison -- The chains prison -- The free prison -- Workshops -- "Aid station" -- The women's prison -- The isolators -- "Reformed" -- Two Odessans -- The murderers (a married couple) -- Grebeniuk and his homestead -- Paklin (from my notebook) -- Settlements (the exile-settlers) -- The female cohabitant -- The male cohabitant -- Those who've voluntarily followed -- The homeowners -- Reztsov -- Freemen on Sakhalin -- The Katorga theater -- Katorga actors -- The Brodiaga Sokolsky -- Crimes in Korsakovsk District -- Departure -- Real Katorga -- The capital of Sakhalin -- Aleksandrovsk post -- Sentenced to penal labor -- Who runs Katorga? -- Prison wardens -- The death penalty -- Executioners -- Corporal punishments -- Katorga's ways -- Matvey's trouble -- The indefinitely-sentenced probationer Glovatsky -- Katorga types -- Initiation into the penal laborers -- Educated persons in Katorga -- Talma on Sakhalin -- The card game -- Katorga's laws -- The language of Katorga -- Katorga songs -- Katorga and religion -- Sectarians on ; Sakhalin Island -- Criminals and crimes -- Criminals and justice (from observations on Sakhalin) -- Katorga labors of a Konovalova -- The most unfortunate of women -- Voluntary followers -- Natives of Sakhalin Island -- Golden hand -- Poluliakhov -- A famous Moscow murderer -- The specialist -- Cannibals -- The penal laborer baroness Heimbrück -- Landsberg -- The grandfather of Russian Katorga -- The apostate -- Katorga's aristocrat -- The plebeian -- The parricide -- Shkandyba -- Hired murderers -- The suicide -- The frenzied -- The educated man -- Poet-murderers (in the form of a preface) -- Mentally ill criminals -- Sakhalin's Monte Carlo (the Katorga almshouse in Derbinsk settlement).
• Sommario/riassunto: A comprehensive evaluation of the Russian oil and natural gas industry and its pivotal role in the volatile Russian economy.