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Exile to Siberia
Fyodor Glinka
history
Liberalism
Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin
Nicholas I
patriotism
Penal colonies
politics
Republicanism
revolution
revolutionary ideologies
Russia
Russian Empire
Russian history
Serfdom abolition
Siberia
State repression
Product details
- ISBN 9781836390213
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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One of Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025: History
On 14 December 1825 a group of young Russian army officers led 3,000 troops to Senate Square in St Petersburg, aiming to force the Senate to adopt a liberal constitution and transform the Russian Empire. The Decembrist Revolt – as it came to be known – was suppressed, with a second uprising in the south meeting the same fate. Five leaders were executed, and many others exiled to Siberia.
Why did so many young noblemen risk their lives for regime change, what was their vision for an alternative society, and what were the consequences for participants and their families? This book highlights the often-neglected liberal tradition in Russian political thought and the experiences of Decembrist wives and fiancées, offering a fresh reinterpretation in the light of recent events in Russia.
Susanna Rabow-Edling is Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. Her books include Liberalism in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: State, Nation, Empire (2018).
