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• Title: Writing Resistance
• Author : Sarah J. Young
• Release Date : January 21, 2021
• Genre: World Affairs,Books,Politics & Current Events,History,Biographies & Memoirs,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 2761 KB

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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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