112 Pages
by
Routledge
This book explores how women dissidents in the Soviet Union faced punishments equal to men in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, labour camps, and exile, yet their political activism, imprisonment, and acts of resistance remain largely overlooked in literature.
The author draws on evidence from the late 1960s, collated by independent human rights groups across the Soviet Union and abroad,... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Punishments 3. Labour Camps 4. Beyond Prison and the Camps 5. Perpetrators
Biography
Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published widely in the area of Soviet women’s history and the history of Soviet repressions. She has served as consultant on a number of international research projects. She is the author of Life Stories of Soviet Women: the Interwar Generation (Routledge, 2013), Soviet Women – Everyday Lives (Routledge, 2020), and Women in the Soviet Dissident Movements (Routledge, 2026).
