Sakhalin Island

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714545619
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

The Island

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Sakhalin

Author: Kristine Ohkubo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781087902982
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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For over a century, the Soviet Union and Japan endeavored to bring Sakhalin into their own sphere of influence. This dispute came to an abrupt end when the Soviets invaded Japanese-controlled Karafuto just days after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.How many people know that Karafuto was the last victim of the Pacific War?

In the Uttermost East

Author: Charles H. Hawes
Publisher: London : Harper
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 654

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The Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin

Author: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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In the Uttermost East

Author: Charles Henry Hawes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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The Island

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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The Island of Sakhalin

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Incident at Sakhalin

Author: Michel Brun
Publisher: New York : Four Walls Eight Windows
ISBN: 9781568580548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
Offers a startling new explanation of the 1983 crash of Korean Air Flight 007, charging that instead of being shot down by the Soviets, the plane was caught in an air battle between the U.S. and the Soviets. 25,000 first printing. IP.

Sakhalin: a History

Author: John J. Stephan
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Based on Russian, Japanese and Chinese sources, it is the first comprehensive history of Sakhalin.