Anonymous

Gruppa Iakutskago Protesta, 18 Feb. - 7 Mar. , 1904 (Yakutsk Protest Group)

S. l. Izdanie Bunda, 1904. Real photo postcard; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2; subtitled below image; a few small creases and several nicks to corners; minor spotting; in about very good condition. A photographic postcard, showing the members of the Yakutsk Protest, most of them Russian Jews, which lasted from February 18th through March 7th of 1904. Fifty-six men and women were depicted, with their last names listed below the picture. The protest was an armed rebellion by political exiles (so called Romanovites) in Yakutsk. It would be the biggest and best-known collective political action of exiles in the city and would be triggered by a circular by the Irkutsk Governor-General, which ordered the punishment of exiles for unauthorized absence and for communicating with other exiles. The rebels ultimately surrendered and were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor - a harsh punishment, which would spark nationwide demonstrations and would lead to the prisoners' release in 1905. Very good .

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Book number: 003569

Catalogue: Political Exiles

Keywords: Russia, Political Exiles

Lure, G. I. (Albert)

Anton Antonovich Kostiushko-Valiuzhanich, 1876 - 1906

Moskva (Moscow), Izdatelstvo vsesoiuznogo obshchestva politkatorzhan i ss.-poselentsev, 1926. First Edition. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 3/4; pp. 3-32; beige wraps, printed and ruled in black and red, illustrated with an woodcut; small nicks with minor loss to lower corner and tail of spine; small manuscript number to back wrap; mild, uniform age-toning to pages; very good condition. Published as No. 4 of "Katorga i ssylka" Deshevaia biblioteka (Cheap Library) series, the book was written by a political prisoner of the Stalin Purges - Jewish-Belarusian Grigorii Isaakovich Lure (1878 - 1938) - who was shot for being part of a counter-revolutionary, terrorist organization. A short biography, the work commemorated the life of Anton Antonovich Kostiushko-Valiuzhanich (1876 - 1906) - member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and editor of "Zabaikalskii rabocii" - the organ of the Chita RSDLP committee. He was exiled and placed in the Irkutsk forced labor camp, which he escaped and became the leader of the armed uprising in Chita in 1905 and 1906. He was captured and shot in January of 1906. "Katorga i ssylka" was an early Soviet journal, which was a platform for Social Democrats' penal memoirs. Very good .

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Book number: 002444

Catalogue: Political Exiles

Keywords: Katorga, Gulag, Memoirs