Russia's Penal Colony in the Far East
Author: Vlas Doroshevich
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0857288725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific. This translation introduces English-language readers to an important writer and original stylist who defined journalistic practice during the years leading up to the1917 Revolution, by way of a book which helps explain the causes for that revolution.