Padraic Kenney

Dance in Chains

Political Imprisonment in the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of the role of political imprisonment in the modern world in regimes ranging from communist to fascist to colonial to democratic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9780199375745
• ISBN-10: 0199375747
• Artikelnr.: 47969732

Autorenporträt

Padraic Kenney is Professor of History and International Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of The Burdens of Freedom: Eastern Europe since 1989, A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989, and Rebuilding Poland: Workers and Communists, 1945-1950. He has served as president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Where a Free Man Can Abide With Honor
* Chapter 1: "But I have no wish to be Discharged": When Imprisonment
Became Political
* Chapter 2: Night and Fog: The Regime and its Prisoners
* Chapter 3: "Everyone learned prison": Becoming a Political Prisoner
* Chapter 4: "You have the consolation of being very much in the
fight": Representing the Cause in Prison
* Chapter 5: "How to Free Your Prisoner": The Personal and the
Political of International Prisoner Support
* Chapter 6: "A Close-Knit Group, Chosen With Care": Community and
Order in the Political Camp and Prison
* Chapter 7: "I was Confusing The Prison": The Contest in the Cell
* Chapter 8: "Why wouldn't I laugh, when I win either way?": The Hunger
Strike
* Chapter 9: Captive Academy: How Prison Forges Politics
* Conclusion: A Recaptured Narrative
* Epilogue: Today's Political Prison
* Notes
* Index