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Sarah J. Young

Writing Resistance

Revolutionary memoirs of Shlissel´burg Prison, 1884-1906

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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 i… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78735-994-9
  • EAN: 9781787359949
  • Produktnummer: 36755355
  • Verlag: UCL Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Sarah J. Young is Associate Professor of Russian at UCL SSEES, where she teaches and researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, culture and thought. She is the author of Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative (2004), and co-editor of Dostoevsky on the Threshold of Other Worlds (2006). Her current research focuses on the Russian tradition of carceral literature.

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