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This article analyses the evolution of the system of GULAG special regime camps during 1948–1954 and the development of the status, identity and the formation of the community of political prisoners incarcerated there, as well as the resistance and ...
Evaldas Gelumbauskas
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The Gendered Revolutionary Body: Memory and Resistance in "Torre das Donzelas"
In her 2018 documentary Torre das Donzelas (Maidens’ Tower), Susanna Lira explores the experiences of women who were political prisoners during the dictatorship via interviews and a spatial recreation of the women’s cellblock of the Tiradentes prison ...
Elissa J. Rashkin
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La identidad en cuestión en la poesía carcelaria argentina (1976-1983)
The present article offers a view into the Argentinian poetry written by political prisoners during the last dictatorship (1976-1983). The limit situation experienced by the authors makes us consider their poems from an historical, political, literary ...
Amandine Guillard
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From the beginning of the 1970s to the end of the next decade, a large number of prisoners’ unions have emerged in both France and the United States. From Attica prison riot to the continuous unrest in Fleury-Merogis, union-based strategies highlight ...
Joël Charbit
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L’univers des anciens prisonniers politiques en Syrie
There were many political prisoners in Syria from the 1970s up to the early 1990s. In 1991 the state began a gradual release program which lasted until 2005.
Yassin al-Haj Saleh
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From the history of the struggle of political prisoners for their rights: The riot in Tsaritsyn prison [PDF]
In the article, when researching the events related to the riot of prisoners in Tsaritsyn prison in June 1904, various aspects of the stay of political prisoners in prisons of the Russian Empire are comprehensively considered, with an emphasis on the ...
Varfolomeev, Yuriy Vladimirovich
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Rewriting the World: Gendered Violence, the Political Imagination and Memoirs from the “Years of Lead” in Morocco [PDF]
Prison literature (littérature carcérale or adab al-sujun) has shed light on censured dimensions of Moroccan postcolonial history. By sharing their personal memories, former political prisoners have triggered a debate on state violence under Hassan II ...
Laura Menin
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Haftarbeit in der DDR. Eine Zwischenbilanz
In modern societies, penal labour is a defining feature of imprisonment in various political systems. The debate amongst scholars and in the public about its role in the GDR and whether the term ›forced labour‹ is appropriate has been particularly acute ...
Jan Philipp Wölbern
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Political Prisoners and Environmental Justice
This paper considers the intersections of environmental justice concerns with the U.S. prison system through the experiences of political prisoners and politicized prisoners from high-profile revolutionary movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.
David N. Pellow
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The article is devoted to the study of various aspects of military captivity, which became a mass phenomenon (“mass experience”) in the years of the First World War and the revolutionary events in Russia and which influenced both the individual fate of ...
Elena G. Timofeeva +2 more
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