Soviet Women Dissidents

Name: Soviet Women Dissidents
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Punishments and Perpetrators

By: Melanie Ilic

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Hardcover | 14 July 2026 | Edition Number 1

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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, including Amnesty International and organizations monitoring the implementation of the 1975 Helsinki Accords. It incorporates personal testimonies of womenâs experiences of psychiatric detention, imprisonment, labour camps, and exile, alongside accounts of women employed by the internal security forces, judiciary, and penal apparatus, revealing their roles and motivations as perpetrators of repression.

Soviet Women Dissidents is an essential resource for scholars and students of Soviet history, gender studies, human rights, and political activism. It provides unique insights into the intersection of gender and state repression during the late Soviet era.

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