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Writing Resistance : revolutionary memoirs of Shlisselburg Prison, 1884-1906
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Year: 2021 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

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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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Studentské hnutí odporu
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ISBN: 8024644215 9788024644219 9788024644219 Year: 2019 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Karolinum,

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US Political Prisoners
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Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Great Neck Publishing,

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Gender, geography, and punishment : the experience of women in carceral Russia
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ISBN: 128364391X 0191633208 9780191633201 6613956414 9786613956415 9780199658619 0199658617 9781283643917 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This book is the first of its kind that brings together human geography and the sociology of punishment to explore the relationship between distance and the punishment in contemporary Russia. Using established penological and geographical theories, the book presents in-depth empirical research to show how the experiences of women prisoners are shaped by the distances that the Russian penal service sends prisoners to serve their sentences. Its most eye-catching feature is its use ofinterviews conducted by the authors and their research team with adult and juvenile women prisoners, ex-prisoners


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Narrating prison experience : human rights, self, society, and political incarceration in Africa
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ISBN: 1612292178 9781612292175 9781612292168 161229216X Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Common Ground

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A gift of barbed wire : America's allies abandoned in South Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780295802848 0295802847 9780295993775 0295993774 Year: 2002 Publisher: Seattle, Washington ; London, England : University of Washington Press,

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Representing radicals : a guide for lawyers and movements
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ISBN: 1849354170 9781849354172 9781849354165 Year: 2021 Publisher: Chico, California : AK Press,

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Victims of Nazi persecution in the Channel Islands : a legitimate heritage?
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ISBN: 1474245706 1474245676 1474245692 Year: 2019 Publisher: [London] : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments of the islands as a legitimate course of action during the occupation is something that still continues today. Drawing on 100 compensation testimonies written in the 1960s and newly discovered archival material, Gilly Carr sheds light on the experiences of British civilians from the Channel Islands in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. She analyses the Foreign Office's treatment of claims from Islanders and explores why the islands' local governments declined to help former political prisoners fight for compensation. Finally, the book asks why 'perceived sensitivities' have stood in the way of honouring former political prisoners and resistance memory over the last 70 years in the Channel Islands. The testimonies explored within this volume help to place the Channel Islands back within European discourse on the Holocaust and the Second World War; as such, it will be of great importance to scholars interested in Nazi occupation, persecution and post-war memory both in Britain and Europe more widely."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Carceral afterlives : prisons, detention, and punishment in postcolonial Uganda
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ISBN: 9780821447741 Year: 2022 Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,

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"This social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe"--


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The devil's grinder = : Moara dracilor
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ISBN: 1930972822 9781930972827 1930972814 9781930972810 9781930972810 1306470811 Year: 2013 Publisher: Las Vegas : Parmenides Publishing,

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"First published in Romanian as Moara Dracilor in 1999 by Editura Ion Creang- S.A. This dual-language edition [is] published . . . with a new Foreword, a new Preface by the author, a new About the Translators, seven additional Poems, three new Illustrations, and a new author Biography"--

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