03443cam a2200517Ma 4500 ocn191932664 Ge_NSL 20150315092244.0 m o u cr cn| 030910s2004 ctuab ob 001 0 eng d 9780300129601 (electronic bk.) 0300129602 (electronic bk.) 0300102704 (alk. paper) 1281730408 9781281730404 (OCoLC)191932664 (OCoLC)129504081 (OCoLC)154792428 (OCoLC)648186482 (OCoLC)815684529 COO eng COO OCLCQ N$T IDEBK E7B OCLCQ eng e-ru--- GLAA DK511.S75 R63 2004eb HIS 032000 bisacsh HIS 010010 bisacsh HIS 012000 bisacsh JPSH bicssc 94(470+571) 947/.17 22 Robson, Roy R. 21995 Solovki [electronic resource] : the story of Russia told through its most remarkable islands / Roy R. Robson. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2004. 1 online resource (xvi, 302 p.) : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-289) and index. Stones -- Saints -- Prosperity -- Struggle -- Guardian -- Triumph -- Defiance -- Rebellion -- Emperor -- Prison -- Reform -- War -- Pilgrims -- Revolutions -- Gulag -- Life -- Denouement. The tragedies and triumphs of the Russian past are viewed through the lens of isolated islands that served as both monastery and Gulag camp. 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. Solovet͡s︡kiĭ monastyrʹ History. 21996 Solovet͡s︡kiĭ lagerʹ osobogo naznachenii͡a︡ History. 21997 HISTORY. bisacsh Solovetski Islands (Russia) History. 21998 რუსეთის ისტორია Electronic books. Print version: Robson, Roy R. Solovki. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2004 (DLC) 2003020212 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=187713 udc ER 0 0 udc 0 0 CPL CPL 2013-05-02 0 94(470+571) 2013-05-02 00:00:00 2013-05-02 ER 10256 10256