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Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran

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Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran - Abrahamian, Ervand
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"Ervand Abrahamian's cogent and engrossing history of imprisonment and resistance, drawing on a wealth of prisoner literature and testimony, chronicles the continuities and ruptures of modern Iran from the vantage points of its shackled dissidents. Readers will encounter some extraordinarily heroic men and women in this account of how Iran came to practice the techniques of ideological discipline and punishment characteristic of Inquisition Spain and Stalin's Soviet Union. Abrahamian shows how the government's mass media ...

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Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran 1999, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9780520218666

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