Subtitle:

Old-lags, fish, violators. Inmates of the Mokotów Prison in Warsaw (1918–1939)

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN ; Wydawnictwo Neriton

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

605 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; Bibliography (pages 552-585). Index ; Summary in English.

Abstract:

In the 1920s there were almost thirty thousand prisoners in Poland, and by the next decade the number grew to nearly fifty thousand a year. In 1918–1939 several hundred thousand, probably more than a million citizens of the Second Polish Republic passed through its prisons. The present book is the first monograph in Polish historiography attempting to answer the questions: who those people were, why they were imprisoned and what their life looked like within the confined space of the prison. The monograph is based on almost three thousand personal files of inmates (only men) imprisoned in one of the largest prisons of interwar Poland, Mokotów Penitentiary in Warsaw. The prison population, due to the universal character of the Mokotów Prison, is regarded as representative of the totality of prisoners in the largest Polish prisons at that time (the so-called first class prisons, that is the over 450-inmate prisons: there were over thirty such prisons in interwar Poland, and their inmates made ca. the third of the total number of prisoners).

Detailed Resource Type:

Book

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:239070 ; 978-83-63352-92-9

Source:

click here to follow the link ; IH PAN, call no. II.14161 Podr. ; IH PAN, call no. II.14162

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

- ; Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at:

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Access:

Open