If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist PolandThe specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of daily life in post war Poland. In interwar Poland, imprisonment, especially for communists, had served as a rite of passage, endurance training, and a university teaching life skills. The post war order brought a dramatic shift, as communists all over the region, often veterans of interwar prisons or war time concentration camps, used incarceration sites as a