If the Walls Could Speak : Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland.
If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalinist prison adds to our...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalinist prison adds to our understanding of coercion and resistance under totalitarian regimes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (345 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190499877 0190499877 0190499893 9780190499891 |