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Political prisoners

Someone imprisoned because they have opposed or criticized the government responsible for their imprisonment

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Political prisoners

4 images from works
  • 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.

Works from the collections

25 works

    • Books

    Memoirs / Andrei Sakharov ; translated from the Russian by Richard Lourie.

    | Andrei Sakharov | Date: 1990
    • Books

    Punitive medicine / by Alexander Podrabinek ; translated by Alexander Lehrman ; foreword by Alexander Ginzburg.

    | Alexandr Podrabinek | Date: 1980
    • Books

    Meditsinskaia deiatel'nost' politicheskikh ssylʹnykh v Sibiri.

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

    Dignitaries of the City of London receiving official addresses while imprisoned in a cell in the Tower of London. Engraving, 1771.

    | Date: [1771] | Reference: 2804595i
    • Books

    A question of madness / Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy A. Medvedev ; translated from the Russian [MS.] by Ellen de Kadt.

    | Zhores Medvedev | Date: 1974
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Related topics

USSR
Dissenters
Psychiatry - politics
Prisoners
History, 20th Century

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