About this Event
Readings from final speeches made by anti-war protestors on trial in the Russian courts for their opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. The performance will be introduced by Simon Pirani, the book's editor, and followed by discussion.
In Russia, dissenters since the Populist rebels of the 1870s have used their final statement in court to urge resistance to power. The tradition flourished in the workers’ movements that preceded the 1917 revolution, was broken by the 1930s Stalinist show trials with their formulaic confessions, and reborn after the 1950s “thaw”, with dissidents such as the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yulii Daniel.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
