Maria Alyokhina
Political Girl : Life and Fate in Russia Hardback Book
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Witty, urgent, and unflinching... her story speaks to anyone who believes that protest can be art, and that art can confront, disrupt, and even destabilize authoritarian power Alpa ShahWhat can you do when your country becomes a repressive authoritarian state? 2014 Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. Russia invades Crimea. Putin is reelected president. Several political prisoners are amnestied and released early from prison.Maria Alyokhina is among them. She had spent two years in a penal colony after performing the punk prayer Virgin Mary, Banish Putin with her friends in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. They had warned the rest of the world of the dangers of authoritarianism, but the Russia she finds when she gets out of prison is even more oppressive.What can you do, she asks, when your country has been seized by allpowerful men who are waging war against another country and their own citizens?As Maria recounts her brave and colourful protests, we are drawn straight into the world of grassroots opposition and witness the absurd measures the Russian state takes to contain protest. And when the fullscale war against Ukraine starts and the Russian opposition is repeatedly silenced, Maria and her activist friends continue to resist despite the high stakes. They fight increasingly absurd cycles of detention and house arrest sometimes with the smallest acts such as going for a walk or having a rainbow ice cream, until, faced with a new prison sentence, she...
Binding: Hardback;208 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 696 g; Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 47
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Witty, urgent, and unflinching... her story speaks to anyone who believes that protest can be art, and that art can confront, disrupt, and even destabilize authoritarian power Alpa ShahWhat can you do when your country becomes a repressive authoritarian state? 2014 Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics. Russia invades Crimea. Putin is reelected president. Several political prisoners are amnestied and released early from prison.Maria Alyokhina is among them. She had spent two years in a penal colony after performing the punk prayer Virgin Mary, Banish Putin with her friends in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. They had warned the rest of the world of the dangers of authoritarianism, but the Russia she finds when she gets out of prison is even more oppressive.What can you do, she asks, when your country has been seized by allpowerful men who are waging war against another country and their own citizens?As Maria recounts her brave and colourful protests, we are drawn straight into the world of grassroots opposition and witness the absurd measures the Russian state takes to contain protest. And when the fullscale war against Ukraine starts and the Russian opposition is repeatedly silenced, Maria and her activist friends continue to resist despite the high stakes. They fight increasingly absurd cycles of detention and house arrest sometimes with the smallest acts such as going for a walk or having a rainbow ice cream, until, faced with a new prison sentence, she...
Binding: Hardback;208 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: BM; Weight: 696 g; Dimensions: 223 x 146 x 47
Extended returns Orders placed after 29th October 2026 can be returned until 5th January 2027
Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back. When you purchase Debenhams Deliver+, you will have an extra 14 days on top of our standard 21-day window to initate a return.
Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.
Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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Maria Alyokhina
Political Girl : Life and Fate in Russia Hardback Book
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