Search Results: tiuremnye volynki prison bagpipes strikes along by koff grigorii moiseevich

A brief history of political prisoner protests staged in Czarist Russia in the lead up to the 1905 Revolution. Published by the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers. Operating in 1921-1935, at its height this society of "old revolutionaries" counted close to 3000 members. Founded by the powerful old revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky, who also created the first Soviet secret police (Cheka), the organization served to commemorate the sacrifices of the formerly imprisoned revolutionaries and to provide them with special aid and privileges, eventually spearheading the creation of a larger organization, International Red Aid (MOPR). The society also published the periodical "Katorga i ssylka" [Hard labor and exile] to which this publication appears to be a special supplement (no. 36). In prison jargon, the "bagpipes" of the title refer to acts of protest or actions that slow down and disrupt the prison order, with this text focused especially on the strikes organized by political… Read More