If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland

by Anna Muller and Anna Müller

The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post-war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post-war order brought a dramatic shift, as communists all over the region, often veterans of interwar prisons or war-time concentration camps, used incarceration sites as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190499869
• ISBN13: 9780190499860
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"