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No Asylum: State Psychiatric Repression in the Former USSR Thomas A. Oleszczuk 1st ed. 1996 edition
No Asylum: State Psychiatric Repression in the Former USSR
Thomas A. Oleszczuk
No Asylum is a quantitative assessment of the incidence of state repression via the peculiar institution of forced psychiatric hospitalization of evidently healthy Soviet dissidents. The book explains who was targeted and why, as the State used psychiatry to attempt to deflect, defuse, discredit or destroy the multifaceted dissident movement.
290 pages, XI, 290 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349135578 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 290 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 385 g |