Notes from a Dead House Secret Police Russian Censorship in the 19th century

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Abstract

In Imperial Russia after the Decembrist uprising in 1825 Tsar Nicolas I set up Secret Police— they followed up on authors thought to be subversive. They worked closely with the Bureau of Censorship. The House of the Dead  by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a fictionalized account of his penal servitude in Siberia. He was sentenced to death in 1949 for participation in the Petrashevsky Circle which advocated freeing the serfs and opposed the tsarist autocracy. Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of four years of hard labor.  
Original languageAmerican English
StatePublished - Jul 5 2021

Keywords

  • censorship
  • surveillance
  • Dostoevsky

Disciplines

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Library and Information Science

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