INSTITUTE OF FOOLS Notes fronm the SERBSKY a Dissident's Memoir of His Most Notorious Soviet Psychiatric Institution by NEKIPELOV , Victor , [ 1928 - 1989 ] Poet, Writer , Dissident , Pharmaceutical Degree - 1980

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1980. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0575028920

Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1980. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0575028920

Victor Gollancz Ltd. London, 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1980. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A dissident's memoir of his detention in the most notorious Soviet psychiatric institution. SUB-TITLE: Notes from the Serbsky. EDITED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY: Marco Carynnyk and Marta Horban. CONTENTS: Introduction; Editors' Note; Preface; INSTITUTE OF FOOLS; APPENDIX; The Trial of Nekipelov; Oprichnina 1977; Oprichnina 1977 Continues; Our Searches; Notes to the Appendix; Bibliography; Index of Names. SYNOPSIS: We now know, from grimly authentic sources, the truth about the Gulag labour camps in the Soviet Union. But we still know comparatively little, at first hand, about the increasing use of mental institutions as part of the system of political repression. Here for the first time is a detailed account, from the inside, of the… Read More

Victor Gollancz, 1980. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition hardback, 1980, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only slight signs of handling and storage. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book. A dissident's memoir of his detention in the most notorious Soviet psychiatric institution.