id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 5712m616p7w Raymond Lawrence Drause In Word and Deed: Exiled Siberian Decembrists as Servants of the Russian Empire, 1826 - 1860 2022 .txt text/plain 237 10 40 Through their production of knowledge about Siberia, the Decembrists raised interest among readers in the European Russian metropole and allowed them to imagine the distant region and its people as part of the Russian Empire. European empires had long used the practice of criminal transportation to remove undesirables from their metropoles and to populate their colonies with a labor force for resource extraction. cache/5712m616p7w.txt txt/5712m616p7w.txt