Download or read book Atrocities in Russian Prisons written by Francis de Pressensé and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atrocities in Russian Prisons Classic Reprint written by Francis de Pressensé and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Atrocities in Russian Prisons France. His political career has been as brilliant as it has been significant. No public man has shown such foresight and courage. Such firm convictions and such fidelity to the Republican ideal as Francis de Presseuse, whose name stands 'out among those who at times of crisis have been found in the foremost ranks of the fighters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Atrocities in Russian Prisons written by Francis de Pressensé and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Atrocities in Russian Prisons M Francis De Pressensé, President of the Ligue Française des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen, is one of the most remarkable men of affairs in contemporary France. His political career has been as brilliant as it has been significant. No public man has shown such foresight and courage, sacli firm convictions and such fidelity to the Republican ideal as Francis de Pressense, whose name stands out among those who at times of crisis have been found in the foremost ranks of the fighters. Francis de Pressense was born on September 30th, 1853. The son of Edmond de Pressense, Protestant pastor and politician, and of Madame Elise Francoise de Pressense, born du Plessis-Gouret, writer and poet, Francis de Pressense passed his childhood under the influence of two enlightened minds, and surrounded by tender and intelligent affection. His first studies were pursued at the Lycee Condorcet in Paris. He was sixteen and a half when the Franco-Prussian War broke out. He volunteered for service and went through the whole campaign. He was made prisoner at the battle of Alen on, and at seventeen he was recommended for the military medal and mentioned for bravery in the Army Order of the day. At the close of the war Francis de Pressense resumed his studies in the Faculties of Literature and Law in Paris. Having obtained his diplomas in these subjects, M. de Pressense entered the School of Political Science in 1874. Here he became remarkable for his extraordinary capacity. In a short time he had made a profound study of the political situation in all modern countries. He was then invited to enter the ranks of diplomacy, and was successively Secretary to the Embassy at Constantinople, Washington, and London. In 1888, having acquired a large amount of practical knowledge, he abandoned a diplomatic career and joined the staff of the great Paris paper Ls Temps as director of its foreign policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Atrocities in Russian Prisons An Address Delivered in Paris on the 13th of Febr 1913 Transl from the French written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Prisons written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Russian Prisons', Arthur Griffiths provides a detailed account of the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners in the prisons and penal institutions of Russia during the late 19th century. Griffiths uses eyewitness accounts, official reports, and personal narratives to substantiate his claims of physical and psychological torture, harsh punishments, and widespread corruption within the system. The book examines the two classes of offenders imprisoned in Russia: ordinary criminals and political dissidents, and sheds light on the brutal treatment of both. From the notorious St. Peter and St. Paul fortress to the Schlüsselburg and the Ostrog at Omsk, the book offers a harrowing look into the dark corners of the Russian penal system.
Download or read book Unfinished Tales from a Russian Prison written by Marguerite E Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Eyes of Prisoners of Russian Prisons written by Olga Nikolaevna Trefilova and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story on the true story of one prisoner of cruelty and violence Russian prison !!!
Download or read book Punishment as a Crime written by Julie Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Russian and French Prisons written by Peter Kropotkin and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1971 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although written in 1887, Kropotkin's criticisms of the Russian penal system are still relevant. His first experience with prisons came when he was assigned to collect facts on the penal systems in Siberia. But when his findings were completely rejected and all hope of reform gone, he embarked on a program of revolutionary activity that ultimately led to his own arrest and imprisonment, first in Saint Petersburg and then in France. A statement of the libertarian viewpoint written from personal experience.
Download or read book My Fellow Prisoners written by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Belomor written by Julie S. Draskoczy and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing analyses of everything from prisoner poetry to album covers, Belomor: Criminality and Creativity in Stalin’s Gulag moves beyond the simplistic good/evil paradigm that often accompanies Gulag scholarship. While acknowledging the normative power of Stalinism—an ethos so hegemonic it wanted to harness the very mechanisms of inspiration—the volume also recognizes the various loopholes offered by artistic expression. Perhaps the most infamous project of Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan, the Belomor construction was riddled by paradox, above all the fact that it created a major waterway that was too shallow for large crafts. Even more significant, and sinister, is that the project won the backing of famous creative luminaries who enthusiastically professed the doctrine of self-fashioning. Belomor complicates our understanding of the Gulag by looking at both prisoner motivation and official response from multiple angles, thereby offering a more expansive vision of the labor camp and its connection to Stalinism.
Download or read book Waiting at the Prison Gate written by Judith Pallott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Federation has one of the largest prison populations in the world. Women in particular are profoundly affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Families and Punishment in Russia details the experiences of these women-be they wives, mothers, girlfriends, daughters-who, as relatives of Russia's three-quarters of a million prisoners, are the "invisible victims" of the country's harsh penal policy. A pioneering work that offers a unique lens through which various aspects of life in twenty-first century Russia can be observed: the workings of criminal sub-cultures; societal attitudes to parenthood, marriage and marital fidelity; young women's quests for a husband; nostalgia for the Soviet period; state strategies towards dealing with political opponents; and the social construction of gender roles.
Download or read book The Secret Betrayal written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The House of the Dead written by Daniel Beer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Cundill History Prize The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million prisoners and their families east. Here Daniel Beer illuminates both the brutal realities of this inhuman system and the tragic and inspiring fates of those who endured it. Siberia was intended to serve not only as a dumping ground for criminals and political dissidents, but also as new settlements. The system failed on both fronts: it peopled Siberia with an army of destitute and desperate vagabonds who visited a plague of crime on the indigenous population, and transformed the region into a virtual laboratory of revolution. A masterly and original work of nonfiction, The House of the Dead is the history of a failed social experiment and an examination of Siberia’s decisive influence on the political forces of the modern world.
Download or read book Stalin s Genocides written by Norman M. Naimark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chilling story of Stalin’s crimes against humanity Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. Stalin's Genocides is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace—the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror—and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.
Download or read book Smolensk Under the Nazis written by Laurie R. Cohen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on oral-history interviews and other sources, this work provides fascinating accounts of how Soviets, Jews, and Roma fared in the Russian city of Smolensk under the 26-month Nazi occupation. The 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union ("Operation Barbarossa") significantly altered the lives of the civilians in occupied Russian territories, yet these individuals' stories are overlooked by most scholarly treatments ofthe attack and its aftermath. This study, drawing on oral-history interviews and a broad range of archival sources, provides a fascinating and detailed account of the everyday life of Soviets, Jews, Roma, and Germans in the city of Smolensk during its twenty-six months under Nazi rule. Smolensk under the Nazis records the profound and painful effects of the invasion and occupation on the 30,000 civilian residents (out of a prewar population ofroughly 155,000) who remained in this border town. It also compares Nazi and Stalinist local propaganda efforts, as well as examining the stance of Russian civilians, thereby investigating what it meant to support -- or hinder --the new Nazi-German and collaborating Russian authorities. By underlining the human dimensions of the war and its often neglected long-term effects, Laurie Cohen promotes a more complex understanding of life under occupation. Smolensk under the Nazis thus complements recent works on everyday life in occupied Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States as well as on the siege of Leningrad. Laurie R. Cohen is Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Innsbruck and Klagenfurt.
