female executions in Russian literature

[Inna Caron]

I thought the original query was about "fictional portrayals of real
life female executions." Was I-330 modeled after a real-life rebel(ess)?
If so, I'd really like to know!

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An obvious candidate would be I-330 in Zamyatin's "We".
>
>I am currently studying for my MA in Modern and Contemporary
>Literature at Loughborough University. As I am sure you are aware each
>student to complete this programme has to undertake a dissertation on a
>chosen topic. My idea is to  consider fictional portrayals of real life
>female executions in twentieth century literature. In particular I
would
>like to compare representations in American and Russian work. For the
>former I intend to use work based on Ethel Rosenberg's death, such as
>Robert Coover's The Public Burning and E.L. Doctrow's The Book of
Daniel,
>but I am having real difficulty finding texts for the latter. As my
>university does not specialise in Russian literature I was wondering if
may
>you had any possible suggestions which could help me?
>Many thanks for you time,
>Emily Dickinson
>
>All best,
>Alex Harrington
>
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