Solovki: The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands - Tapa dura

Robson, Roy R.

 
9780300102703: Solovki: The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands
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ISBN 10: 0300102704 ISBN 13: 9780300102703
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2004

Sinopsis

Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians.

The site of a beautiful medieval monastery―once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe―Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labor camp. Roy Robson recounts the history of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage. In the 1600s, the piety and prosperity of Solovki turned to religious rebellion, siege, and massacre. Peter the Great then used it as a prison. But Solovki’s glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage site―only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the “mother of the Gulag” system.

From its first intrepid visitors through the blood-soaked twentieth century, Solovki―like Russia itself―has been a site of both glorious achievement and profound misery.

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Roy R. Robson is associate professor of history at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300102704
ISBN 13 
9780300102703
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Número de páginas
320
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