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Notes from a Dead House Secret Police & Russian Censorship in the 19th century
The Preservation and Annihilation of Memory.
(2021)
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.
Keywords
- censorship,
- surveillance,
- Dostoevsky
Disciplines
Publication Date
July 5, 2021
Publisher Statement
Creative Commons. Substack.
Citation Information
McCook, K. (July 5, 2021). Notes from a Dead House
Secret Police & Russian Censorship in the 19th century. https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-dead-house
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