Accounts from solitary imprisonment

[Michael Denner]

Don't forget Herzen's account of time he spent in "solitary" from Былое и думы. Makes for an interesting comparison with the Soviet idea of solitary confinement and deprivation of rights. 

Alina is right -- one of the best ways to look for books on similar topics is to scan the shelf. One particularly cool way to do this is to access the LoC catalgogue (www.loc.gov), and then click on the Call Number of a book you know is pertinent (in this case, Whirlwind). You can then scan the titles and authors laterally, as though you were standing virtually at the corresponding shelf in the LoC (which, of course, you cannot do physically). 

Not all libraries are set up to allow users to scan titles, and not all libraries are the Library of Congress. I've any number of times found some real gems using this method that I would never have found using a subject or title search: Assigning subject classes is an art, not a science, but the way the LoC has the catalogue set up, you catch a lot of things that you'd otherwise miss.

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From: Jolanta Davis [mailto:jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU] 
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:58 PM
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Subject: [SEELANGS] Accounts from solitary imprisonment

Dear all,

I'm looking for accounts of dealing with being in solitary imprisonment,
either from the twentieth or the nineteenth century. I'm sure there are
plenty of these out there, I know only of Ginzburg's "Into the whirlwind".
I don't remember if Solzhenitsyn wrote about it as well.

thanks

Jolanta M. Davis
AAASS Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
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Cambridge, MA
tel.: 617-495-0679
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