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CHAPTER XXII.
THE EXILE SYSTEM.
The Ukase of Abolition—Early History of the Exile System—An optimistic
View—The “Cooking” of Official Documents—The Early Reformers—
Statistics—An Unacknowledged Corvée—The Brodyagi—Cannibalism
—Increase of Crime—Demoralisation of the Authorities.
Regularly every year during the last decade the
impending abolition of the exile system has been announced
through the Russian press, and last year an imperial ukase
was issued decreeing that deportation to Siberia shall in
future be replaced by imprisonment after the pattern of
western Europe. The growing discontent among the
Siberians has thus been soothed down by this imperial promise
to abolish the hated system. But, as a matter of fact,
after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the
system became clearly no longer possible.
It requires, however, something more than press-notices
and ukases to create a penal system with necessary
institutions capable of receiving the stream of real criminals
or innocent victims of Russian justice—amounting to some
20,000 every year—which is flowing into Siberia, not to
speak of the thousands which are being exiled to other
distant parts of the immense empire, such as Trans-Caucasia,
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