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Carregando... Grey is the Colour of Hopede Irina Ratushinskai︠a︡
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I read this book many years ago but it has stayed with me quite vividly. She was so courageous - how simple that sounds, how incredibly hard and complex in her reality. Her spirit was not bowed by one of the most brutal, ugliest regimes ever imagined. On December 10, to mark Human Rights Day, the prisoners ran naked into the snow - knowing they'd be punished for it, but knowing they needed to do it to feel like human beings, independent, in control of their rights, not beaten nor defeated. Their defiant spirit saved them. And set a model for all of us to act and be courageous. The most striking thing about this book it its focus on the inner life of Ratushinskaya rather than her conditions. Not that there isn't plenty in the book about the living conditions in the Soviet camp, but it isn't the focus. Most of the struggles of the women are, in fact, of their own making as they defy the system that imprisons them. Ratushinskaya is an activist, and it shows. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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These are the prison memoirs of a Russian human rights activist who served four years in a hard labour camp for writing poetry. She continued to write whilst imprisoned, and her work was smuggled to the West resulting in pressure for her release, which was finally granted in October 1986. Western politicians, the media, the Church and countless individuals campaigned for Ratushinskaya's release, and it took place amid much publicity. She came to Britain for medical treatment and has become very well known and well regarded as a prolific poet. This prose text is the story of her survival. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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It’s not a comfortable book, but it is worth reading. This is the memoir of a “zek”, an inmate in a Soviet prison camp. Irina Ratushinskaya is a poet and human rights activist who ends up in the Small Zone, with a small group of other political prisoners. She is defiant, astute, funny, and infinitely courageous, as she details the survival techniques of the group, and the constant attempts of the KGB to break their spirits.
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