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Prisoners' Wives in Post-Soviet Russia: ‘For my Husband I am Pining!’

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  • Elena Katz
  • Judith Pallot

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The identity of a prisoner's wife is often a shameful societal stigma. Yet Russia's unique history of imprisonment has provided an unusually positive trope for women who have to come to terms with their partners' incarceration: the ‘Decembrist wife’ (dekabristka). This trope originated in the aftermath of the 1825 ‘Decembrist’ uprising—the first anti-monarchist revolt in modern Russian history. A handful of wives of the perpetrators voluntarily joined their husbands in Siberian exile and, in leaving behind families and comforts, created a precedent to be glorified for future generations. Upheld in Russian national mythology as a model of the exemplary wife, the dekabristka identity lives on. This paper examines its enduring power and significance in contemporary Russia.

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  • Elena Katz & Judith Pallot, 2014. "Prisoners' Wives in Post-Soviet Russia: ‘For my Husband I am Pining!’," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 66(2), pages 204-224, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:66:y:2014:i:2:p:204-224
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2014.883832
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