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Political prisoners

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  • Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, is led out through the gates of La Force prison to the street in Paris where she is killed by the Revolutionary mob. Wood engraving.
  • Gottfried Eisenmann. Lithograph by G. W. Faber.
  • Prisoners in the French Revolution awaiting the summons to the guillotine. Engraving by Masson after Charles Muller.
  • The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Psychiatric terror : how Soviet psychiatry is used to suppress dissent / Sidney Bloch, Peter Reddaway.

    Bloch, Sidney | Date: [1977]
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    Memoirs / Andrei Sakharov ; translated from the Russian by Richard Lourie.

    Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989. | Date: 1990
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    Punitive medicine / by Alexander Podrabinek ; translated by Alexander Lehrman ; foreword by Alexander Ginzburg.

    Podrabinek, Aleksandr, 1953- | Date: 1980
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    Meditsinskaia deiatel'nost' politicheskikh ssylʹnykh v Sibiri.

    Mendrina, G. I. (Galina Ivanovna) | Date: 1962
    • Books

    I matti del Duce : manicomi e repressione politica nell'Italia fascista / Matteo Petracci.

    Petracci, Matteo | Date: [2014]
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