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ID126030
Title ProperWhat is this freedom that is our passion?
LanguageENG
AuthorKyi, Aung San Suu
Publication2011.
Summary / Abstract (Note)The first autobiography I ever read was providentially, or prophetically, or perhaps both, Seven Years Solitary, by a Hungarian woman who had been in the wrong faction during the Communist Party purges of the early 1950s. At 13 years old, I was fascinated by the determination and ingenuity with which one woman alone was able to keep her mind sharp and her spirit unbroken through the years when her only human contact was with men whose everyday preoccupation was to try to break her. It is one of the most basic needs that those who decide to go into, and to persevere in, the business of dissent have to be prepared to live without. In fact living without is a huge part of the existence of dissidents.
`In' analytical NoteHimal Vol.24, No.12; December 2011: p.64-65
Journal SourceHimal Vol.24, No.12; December 2011: p.64-65
Key WordsPolitical Writing ;  Autobiography ;  Hungarian Women ;  Communist Party ;  Aung San Suu Kyi ;  Burma ;  Myanmar ;  Politics ;  Political Determination ;  Ingenuity ;  NLD - Burma