But the author has added enormously to the detail, including hitherto secret information on the three great "Moscow Trials," on the fate of the executed generals, on the methods of obtaining confessions, on the purge of writers and other members of the intelligentsia, on life in the labor camps, and many other key matters.
Both a leading Sovietologist and a highly respected poet, the author blends research with prose, providing not only an authoritative account of Stalin's purges, but also a compelling chronicle of one of this century's most tragic events. A timely revision of a book long out of print, this is the updated version of the author's original work.
Ranging from ancient times to the present, a survey of the evolution of the prison explores its relationship to the history of Western criminal law and offers a look at the social world of prisoners over the centuries. In Amnesty experienced a severe internal crisis which prompted the organisation to make structural changes.
These changes enabled it to expand its activities beyond Europe to Latin America, including Brazil. It makes a significant contribution to international research on state crime, human rights, and torture.
The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies. Wells, Rebecca West, Others. This book demonstrates that the reforms of the s led to a sharp decline in the standard of living for the average Russian urbanite, for instance in Novosibirsk. It discusses some of the difficulties and hardships experienced by scientists in Russia.
Arranged by country, this text inlcudes articles from journals, pamphlets, organizational reports, and books on political prisoners and their trials.
Skip to content. Tortures of Political Prisoners in Russia. Tortured Confessions. Tortured Confessions Book Review:. The Great Terror. The Great Terror Book Review:. The Oxford History of the Prison. Designed to win the hearts and minds of the masses, such public confessions—now enhanced by technology—continue as a means to legitimize those in power and to demonize "the enemy.
Download The Oxford History Of The Prison books , Ranging from ancient times to the present, a survey of the evolution of the prison explores its relationship to the history of Western criminal law and offers a look at the social world of prisoners over the centuries.
In Amnesty experienced a severe internal crisis which prompted the organisation to make structural changes. These changes enabled it to expand its activities beyond Europe to Latin America, including Brazil.
It makes a significant contribution to international research on state crime, human rights, and torture. Download The New Global Insecurity books , A noted conflict expert shows how accelerating globalization is causing dangerous global insecurity that must be met by new security models and policies. Committee on Appropriations.
Download Political Prisoners And Trials books , Arranged by country, this text inlcudes articles from journals, pamphlets, organizational reports, and books on political prisoners and their trials. Download Russia S Fate Through Russian Eyes books , This book demonstrates that the reforms of the s led to a sharp decline in the standard of living for the average Russian urbanite, for instance in Novosibirsk. It discusses some of the difficulties and hardships experienced by scientists in Russia.
Download Amnesty For Political Prisoners books ,. Within it, Kropotkin offers poignant descriptions of the conditions of those who undergo solitary confinement while offering his own panacea to the wealth of problems engendered by the existence of prisons: abolish them entirely. Although written over a century ago, Kropotkin's astute criticisms of the penal system are still very much relevant today.
Peter And St. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin — was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist, scientist, sociologist, essayist, historian, researcher, political scientist, geographer, geographer, biologist, philosopher and advocate of anarcho-communism. Download Prisons The World Over books , Prisons The World Over reports prison conditions, number of prisoners and occupancy level, offenses for which inmates are interred, and average length of incarceration for 21 countries.
Also reported are the demographic characteristics of the prisoners. Download Torture books , "Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries.
This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present. According to human rights organizations, Iran has been at the forefront of countries using systematic physical torture in recent years, especially for political prisoners.
Is the government's goal to ensure social discipline? To obtain information? Neither seem likely, because torture is kept secret and victims are brutalized until something other than information is obtained: a public confession and ideological recantation. For the victim, whose honor, reputation, and self-respect are destroyed, the act is a form of suicide. In Iran a subject's "voluntary confession" reaches a huge audience via television.
The accessibility of television and use of videotape have made such confessions a primary propaganda tool, says Abrahamian, and because torture is hidden from the public, the victim's confession appears to be self-motivated, increasing its value to the authorities.
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