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In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorism and revolutionary activity were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortress near St Petersburg. The regime of indeterminate sentences in isolation caused severe mental and physical deterioration among the prisoners, over half of whom died. But the survivors fought back to reform the prison and improve the inmates' living conditions. The memoirs many survivors wrote enshrined their story in revolutionary mythology, and acted as an indictment of the Tsarist autocracy's loss of moral authority.Writing Resistance features three of these memoirs, all translated into English for the first time. They show the process of transforming the regime as a collaborative endeavour that resulted in flourishing allotments, workshops and intellectual culture - and in the inmates running many of the prison's everyday functions. Sarah J. Young's introductory essay analyses the Shlissel´burg memoirs' construction of a collective narrative of resilience, resistance and renewal. It uses distant reading techniques to explore the communal values they inscribe, their adoption of a powerful group identity, and emphasis on overcoming the physical and psychological barriers of the prison.The first extended study of Shlissel´burg's revolutionary inmates in English, Writing Resistance uncovers an episode in the history of political imprisonment that bears comparison with the inmates of Robben Island in South Africa's apartheid regime and the Maze Prison in Belfast during the Troubles. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the Russian revolution, carceral history, penal practice and behaviours, and prison and life writing.

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In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorism and revolutionary activity were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortress near St Petersburg. The regime of indeterminate sentences in isolation caused severe mental and physical deterioration among the prisoners, over half of whom died. But the survivors fought back to reform the prison and improve the inmates' living conditions. The memoirs many survivors wrote enshrined their story in revolutionary mythology, and acted as an indictment of the Tsarist autocracy's loss of moral authority.Writing Resistance features three of these memoirs, all translated into English for the first time. They show the process of transforming the regime as a collaborative endeavour that resulted in flourishing allotments, workshops and intellectual culture - and in the inmates running many of the prison's everyday functions. Sarah J. Young's introductory essay analyses the Shlissel´burg memoirs' construction of a collective narrative of resilience, resistance and renewal. It uses distant reading techniques to explore the communal values they inscribe, their adoption of a powerful group identity, and emphasis on overcoming the physical and psychological barriers of the prison.The first extended study of Shlissel´burg's revolutionary inmates in English, Writing Resistance uncovers an episode in the history of political imprisonment that bears comparison with the inmates of Robben Island in South Africa's apartheid regime and the Maze Prison in Belfast during the Troubles. It will be of interest to scholars and students of the Russian revolution, carceral history, penal practice and behaviours, and prison and life writing.

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Revolutionaries --- Political prisoners --- Poerio, Carlo, --- Italy --- History

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Intro -- PRAISE -- TITLE PAGE -- CONTENTS -- CHRONOLOGY: EGYPT 1952-2021 -- FOREWORD BY NAOMI KLEIN -- INTRODUCTION -- 2011 -- WHO WILL WRITE THE CONSTITUTION? -- TO BE WITH THE MARTYRS, FOR THAT IS FAR BETTER -- KEYNOTE ADDRESS TO RIGHTSCON 2011 -- RETURN TO MUBARAK'S PRISONS -- THE HOSTAGE STATE -- HALF AN HOUR WITH KHALED -- NOTHING TO CELEBRATE -- 2012 -- WHY ARE THE YOUNG PEOPLE AT THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR? -- GAZA: ON BEING PRISONER TO YOUR OWN VICTORY -- IMPOSSIBLE SOLUTIONS -- CONSTITUTIONAL PROTOCOL -- 2013 -- DEAR CUSTOMER, THANK YOU FOR HOLDING -- ON THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR ALAA'S FATHER, AHMED SEIF EL-ISLAM -- ON THE SAKHAROV PRIZE -- FIVE POSTS FROM OCTOBER 2014 -- 2016 -- THE ONLY WORDS I CAN WRITE -- THE BIRTH OF A BRAVE NEW WORLD 1: BETWEEN UBER AND THE LUDDITES -- THE BIRTH OF A BRAVE NEW WORLD 2: ATOMS & BITS -- THE BIRTH OF A BRAVE NEW WORLD 3: WHO CAN COMPETE WITH UBER? -- 2017 -- A PORTRAIT OF THE ACTIVIST OUTSIDE HIS PRISON -- YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED -- 2019 -- THE GHOST OF SPRING -- ON PROBATION -- INTERVIEW WITH MADA MASR -- WHEN I LEFT YOU -- THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD -- ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF RABAA. NEW CASE: INSULTING THE JUDICIARY -- FOUR TWEETS ON STATE VIOLENCE -- SOLIDARITY STRIKES -- HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF -- SCHRODINGER'S COUP -- ASMAA -- AFTER THE CHURCHES -- ABOVE THE SOUND OF BATTLE -- WHAT HAPPENED AT ABU ZAABAL -- YOU KNOW THAT THE KILLING WAS RANDOM -- NOTES ON THE 'RECLAIMING THE REVOLUTION' NARRATIVE -- WHO REPRESENTS THE BOURGEOISIE? -- THE RIGHTEOUS PATH -- MY IMMINENT ARREST -- 2014 -- GRAFFITI FOR TWO -- AUTISM -- EVERYBODY KNOWS -- LYSENKO COUNTRY -- INTERVIEW WITH DEMOCRACY NOW! -- GAME OF THRONES -- I'VE REACHED MY LIMIT -- YOUR LEGACY. VENGEANCE IN VICTORY: A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION -- ON BDS -- FIVE METAPHORS ON HEALING -- STATEMENT TO THE PROSECUTOR -- 2020 -- STATEMENT TO THE PROSECUTOR -- THE PANDEMIC HAS REACHED OUR PRISONS -- A HANDWRITTEN NOTE -- 2021 -- THE SEVEN COURSES OF CHANGE -- PALESTINE ON MY MIND -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- COPYRIGHT.

Political prisoners --- Political prisoners. --- Politics and government. --- History --- Since 2000. --- Egypt --- Egypt. --- Politics and government

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"In 1943, Charlotte Delbo and 229 other women were deported to a station with no name, which they later learned was Auschwitz. Arrested for resisting the Nazi occupation of Paris, Delbo was sent to the camps, enduring both Auschwitz and Ravensbrück for twenty-seven months. She sustained herself by reciting Molière and resolved to someday write a book about herself and her fellow deportees, a stunning work called None of Us Will Return. After the camps, Delbo devoted her life to the art of writing and the duty of witnessing, fiercely advocating for the power of the arts to testify against despotism and tyranny. Ghislaine Dunant's unforgettable biography of Delbo, La vie retrouvée (2016), captivated French readers and was awarded the Prix Femina. Now translated into English for the first time, Charlotte Delbo: A Life Reclaimed depicts Delbo's lifelong battles as a working-class woman, as a survivor, as a leftist who broke from the Communist Party, and most of all, as a writer whose words compelled others to see"--

Authors, French --- Political prisoners --- Delbo, Charlotte. --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)