My Fellow Prisoners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Fellow Prisoners write by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This book was released on 2015-02-24. My Fellow Prisoners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Surviving Russian Prisons
Surviving Russian Prisons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surviving Russian Prisons write by Laura Piacentini. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Surviving Russian Prisons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first book to have been written in English on penal practices in the contemporary Russian prison system. Surviving Russian Prisons focuses in particular on the reality of work and labour within Russian prisons, exploring its changing function. From being for much of the twentieth century a major activity as well as an ideological justification for prison regimes, its main function now has been to enable prisoners to survive through participating in a barter economy. In exploring the microworlds of the Russian prison this book at the same time presents new evidence and offers fresh insight into how prisons are governed in societies undergoing turbulent social and political transformation; it explores how current practices in relation to prisoners' work comply with international regulations designed to promote humane containment and positive custody; and debates the nature of knowledge on penal discourse in transitional states.
The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia
The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia write by Laura Piacentini. This book was released on 2022-04-28. The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their institutional moorings and borders. Using the online world of Runet as the research site and presenting research from selectively drawn evidence gathered from secondary data from prison-related websites, it explores the ‘moving walls’ of the prison from socio-political and cultural perspectives. The book discusses how prisoners and their families articulate and give meaning to their experiences when they are online, and while doing so develop their rights awareness. This book is a pioneering methodological, criminological and theoretical study, the first of its kind in global criminology and humanities, and because it is forging a new path for penal scholarship, cannot be all-encompassing but rather acts as a ‘map’ for other researchers in different fields to use. It will be useful for scholars working in comparative fields and jurisdictions on the subject of prisons, rights and how the internet is being utilised by prisoners, their families and communities organised around prison activism.
Letters from Russian Prisons
Letters from Russian Prisons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Letters from Russian Prisons write by Committee For Political Prisoners. This book was released on 2011-10-01. Letters from Russian Prisons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Consisting Of Reprints Of Documents By Political Prisoners In Soviet Prisons, Prison Camps And Exile, And Reprints Of Affidavits Concerning Political Persecution In Soviet Russia, Official Statements By Soviet Authorities, Excerpts From Soviet Laws Pertaining To Civil Liberties, And Other Documents. Introductory Letters Include Those By: Einstein, Emma Goldman, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertrand Russell, Harold Laski, Karl Capek, Maeterlinck, H. G. Wells, Rebecca West, Others.
Prisoners of Russia
Prisoners of Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prisoners of Russia write by Benjamin Douglas Howard. This book was released on 1902. Prisoners of Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
