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• Winner of Winner of the Oskar Halecki Award of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America.

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In a compelling and poignant narrative, Anna Muller shows how a group of women in the most difficult of circumstances were able to resist governmental oppression and assert their human dignity. This is history as it should be told and remembered. --Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan A powerful, original, and vivid story of Polish female political prisoners, who are defined not by their status as oppressed victims of communism, but by their humanity and individuality. Muller guides the reader through the drama of imprisonment, interrogation, and gendered rituals of everyday life in a cell with sensitivity and grace. --Malgorzata Fidelis, author of Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland Anna Muller's is an extraordinary study of women's prison experience in Stalinist Poland. It uses interviews, archival materials and deep historical insight to challenge the current model of presenting the lives and suffering of the 'doomed soldiers.' In an original and nuanced way, Muller illuminates the modes of survival and the post-prison dealing with the past by the neglected category of women-political prisoners. The book is original, very well written, insightful and compassionate. --Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Princeton University

In a compelling and poignant narrative, Anna Muller shows how a group of women in the most difficult of circumstances were able to resist governmental oppression and assert their human dignity. This is history as it should be told and remembered. --Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan A powerful, original, and vivid story of Polish female political prisoners, who are defined not by their status as oppressed victims of communism, but by their humanity and individuality. Muller guides the reader through the drama of imprisonment, interrogation, and gendered rituals of everyday life in a cell with sensitivity and grace. --Malgorzata Fidelis, author of Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland Anna Muller's is an extraordinary study of women's prison experience in Stalinist Poland. It uses interviews, archival materials and deep historical insight to challenge the current model of presenting the lives and suffering of the 'doomed soldiers.' In an original and nuanced way, Muller illuminates the modes of survival and the post-prison dealing with the past by the neglected category of women-political prisoners. The book is original, very well written, insightful and compassionate. --Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Princeton University

""[This] is a thorough and extremely well researched book. The author's ability to transcend the detail and to deliver a balanced and clear discussion on the subject, is truly commendable. This is worthy of comment because, as she admits, she became very fond of the women whom she interviewed and clearly her empathy with them enriched the narrative. To rise above these strong emotions to write a book on the prison system as much as it is on the women's experience, is impressive."" -- Anita J. Prazmowska, European History Quarterly ""[Müller] depicts, with vivid detail and compassionate analysis, arrest and interrogation, adaptation to life in a cell, relationships among cellmates, and efforts to fill the emptiness of prison lifeâ..Scholars and students of post-war East European society, particularly those interested in women and gender, will discover much of value in this book, as will others who study the sociology of prison populations. Müller illuminates a dark period of Polish history, conveying not just the anguish of the females imprisoned by the Communist regime, but the women's strength, inventiveness, and tenacity."" -- Katherine R. Jolluck , American Historical Review ""In a compelling and poignant narrative, Anna Müller shows how a group of women in the most difficult of circumstances were able to resist governmental oppression and assert their human dignity. This is history as it should be told and remembered.""--Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan ""A powerful, original, and vivid story of Polish female political prisoners, who are defined not by their status as oppressed victims of communism, but by their humanity and individuality. Muller guides the reader through the drama of imprisonment, interrogation, and gendered rituals of everyday life in a cell with sensitivity and grace.""--Malgorzata Fidelis, author of Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland ""Anna Müller's is an extraordinary study of women's prison experience in Stalinist Poland. It uses interviews, archival materials and deep historical insight to challenge the current model of presenting the lives and suffering of the 'doomed soldiers.' In an original and nuanced way, Müller illuminates the modes of survival and the post-prison dealing with the past by the neglected category of women-political prisoners. The book is original, very well written, insightful and compassionate.""--Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Princeton University

In a compelling and poignant narrative, Anna Muller shows how a group of women in the most difficult of circumstances were able to resist governmental oppression and assert their human dignity. This is history as it should be told and remembered. --Jeffrey Veidlinger, University of Michigan A powerful, original, and vivid story of Polish female political prisoners, who are defined not by their status as oppressed victims of communism, but by their humanity and individuality. Muller guides the reader through the drama of imprisonment, interrogation, and gendered rituals of everyday life in a cell with sensitivity and grace. --Malgorzata Fidelis, author of Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland Anna Muller's is an extraordinary study of women's prison experience in Stalinist Poland. It uses interviews, archival materials and deep historical insight to challenge the current model of presenting the lives and suffering of the 'doomed soldiers.' In an original and nuanced way, Muller illuminates the modes of survival and the post-prison dealing with the past by the neglected category of women-political prisoners. The book is original, very well written, insightful and compassionate. --Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Princeton University

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Anna Müller is assistant professor of history and Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She was formerly a curator at the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland.

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