Letters From Russian Prisons

Author : Committee For Political Prisoners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258090449

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Letters from Russian Prisons by Committee For Political Prisoners Pdf

Consisting Of Reprints Of Documents By Political Prisoners In Soviet Prisons, Prison Camps And Exile, And Reprints Of Affidavits Concerning Political Persecution In Soviet Russia, Official Statements By Soviet Authorities, Excerpts From Soviet Laws Pertaining To Civil Liberties, And Other Documents. Introductory Letters Include Those By: Einstein, Emma Goldman, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertrand Russell, Harold Laski, Karl Capek, Maeterlinck, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1075753968

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Letters from Russian Prisons by Anonim Pdf

Author : International Committee for Political Prisoners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : OCLC:263620420

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Letters from Russian prisons by International Committee for Political Prisoners Pdf

Author : International Committee for Political Prisoners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCD:31175013214633

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Letters from Russian Prisons by International Committee for Political Prisoners Pdf

Author : International Committee for Political Prisoners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : OCLC:473690885

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Letters from Russian Prisons by International Committee for Political Prisoners Pdf

Author : International committee for political prisoners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Communism
ISBN : LCCN:26015832

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Letters from Russian Prisons by International committee for political prisoners Pdf

Author : Felix Dzerzhinsky
Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0898758890

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Prison Diary and Letters by Felix Dzerzhinsky Pdf

Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) was a loyal associate of Lenin and Stalin. Dzerzhinsky was born into the family of a small landowner in Lithuania, of Polish nationality. At the age of 17 he participated in the socialist movement; a year later he became a member of the Lithuanian Social-Democratic Party and from then on devoted himself entirely to poltical work. For his revolutionary activity Dzerzhinsky was savagely persecuted by the tsarist authorities; he was repeatedly exiled and sentenced to penal servitude in Poland and Russia. He spent nearly eleven years in prison and in penal servitude. The February revolution of 1917 released Dzerzhinsky from a Moscow prison. Immediately upon his release he became extremely active in the Moscow Bolshevik Party organization. At the Sixth Congress of the Bolshevik Party in August 1917 Dzerzhinsky was elected to the Central Committee of the Party. Later, in the period when the actual preparations for the October Revolution were being made, he became a member of the Party Centre, headed by Stalin, which led the uprising. After the victory of the revolution, Dzerzhinsky, on the recommendation of Lenin, was appointed Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission to Combat Counter-Revolution, Sabotage, and Speculation (Cheka). In later years he was Peoples Commissar of Railways, and Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609620684

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Resilient Russian Women in the 1920s & 1930s by Marcelline Hutton Pdf

The stories of Russian educated women, peasants, prisoners, workers, wives, and mothers of the 1920s and 1930s show how work, marriage, family, religion, and even patriotism helped sustain them during harsh times. The Russian Revolution launched an eco-nomic and social upheaval that released peasant women from the control of traditional extended families. It promised urban women equality and created opportunities for employment and higher education. Yet, the revolution did little to eliminate Russian patriarchal culture, which continued to undermine women's social, sexual, eco-nomic, and political conditions. Divorce and abortion became more widespread, but birth control remained limited, and sexual liberation meant greater freedom for men than for women. The transformations that women needed to gain true equality were postponed by the pov-erty of the new state and the political agendas of leaders like Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.

Author : Marquis de Custine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141394527

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Letters from Russia by Marquis de Custine Pdf

The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars. Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, Custine is as brilliant writing about the Kremlin as he is about the great northern landscapes. An immediate bestseller on publication, Custine's book is also a central book for any discussion of 19th century history, as - like de Tocqueville's Democracy in America - it dramatizes far broader questions about the nature of government and society.

Author : Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781468311617

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My Fellow Prisoners by Mikhail Khodorkovsky Pdf

The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post). Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. Then he was arrested at gunpoint. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges in 2003, Khodorkovsky was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years on new charges that contradicted the previous ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and this book is dedicated to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, My Fellow Prisoners is an eye-opening account of Russia’s brutal prison system. “Vivid, humane and poignant” —Financial Times

Author : Katy Turton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230393080

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Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870–1940 by Katy Turton Pdf

This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime. While revolutionaries were expected to sever all family ties or at the very least put political concerns before personal ones, in practice this was rarely achieved. In the underground, revolutionaries of all stripes, from populists to social-democrats, relied on siblings, spouses, children and parents to help them conduct party tasks, with the appearance of domesticity regularly thwarting police interference. Family networks were also vital when the worst happened and revolutionaries were imprisoned or exiled. After the revolution, these family networks continued to function in the building of the new Soviet regime and amongst the socialist opponents who tried to resist the Bolsheviks. As the Party persecuted its socialist enemies and eventually turned on threats perceived within its ranks, it deliberately included the spouses and relatives of its opponents in an attempt to destroy family networks for good.

Author : Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681373829

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Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence between Helmuth James and Freya von Moltke, 1944-45 by Helmuth Caspar von Moltke,Johannes von Moltke,Dorothea von Moltke Pdf

Available for the first time in English, a moving prison correspondence between a husband and wife who resisted the Nazis. Tegel prison, Berlin, in the fall of 1944. Helmuth James von Moltke is awaiting trial for his leading role in the Kreisau Circle, one of the most important German resistance groups against the Nazis. By a near miracle, the prison chaplain at Tegel is Harald Poelchau, a friend and coconspirator of Helmuth and his wife, Freya. From Helmuth’s arrival at Tegel in late September 1944 until the day of his execution by the Nazis on January 23, 1945, Poelchau would carry Helmuth’s and Freya’s letters in and out of prison daily, risking his own life. Freya would safeguard these letters for the rest of her long life. Last Letters is a profoundly personal record of the couple’s fortitude in the face of fascism.

Author : Laura Piacentini
Publisher : Willan Pub
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1843921030

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Surviving Russian Prisons by Laura Piacentini Pdf

What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first book to have been written in English on penal practices in the contemporary Russian prison system. Surviving Russian Prisons focuses in particular on the reality of work and labour within Russian prisons, exploring its changing function. From being for much of the twentieth century a major activity as well as an ideological justification for prison regimes, its main function now has been to enable prisoners to survive through participating in a barter economy. In exploring the microworlds of the Russian prison this book at the same time presents new evidence and offers fresh insight into how prisons are governed in societies undergoing turbulent social and political transformation; it explores how current practices in relation to prisoners' work comply with international regulations designed to promote humane containment and positive custody; and debates the nature of knowledge on penal discourse in transitional states.

Author : Richard Polenberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0801486181

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Fighting Faiths by Richard Polenberg Pdf

Jacob Abrams et al. v. United States is the landmark Supreme Court case in the definition of free speech. Although the 1918 conviction of four Russian Jewish anarchists--for distributing leaflets protesting America's intervention in the Russian revolution--was upheld, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's dissenting opinion (with Justice Louis Brandeis) concerning "clear and present danger" has proved the touchstone of almost all subsequent First Amendment theory and litigation.In Fighting Faiths, Richard Polenberg explores the causes and characters of this dramatic episode in American history. He traces the Jewish immigrant experience, the lives of the convicted anarchists before and after the trials, the careers of the major players in the court cases--men such as Holmes, defense attorney Harry Weinberger, Southern Judge Henry DeLamar Clayton, Jr., and the young J. Edgar Hoover--and the effects of this important case on present-day First Amendment rights.

Author : Antonio Gramsci
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0231075545

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Letters from Prison by Antonio Gramsci Pdf

Hailed by Terry Eagleton in the Guardian as "definitive," this is the only complete and authoritative edition of Antonio Gramsci's deeply personal and vivid prison letters.