Penguin presents the audiobook model of Riot Times by Maria Alyokhina, browse by Kate Lock.

From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a fresh, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment inside a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.

‘One of the very most brilliant and inspiring things I’ve examine in years. Couldn’t place it down. This book is freedom’ Chris Kraus, writer of I REALLY LIKE Dick

People who have confidence in freedom and about Riot Times democracy think it will exist forever.

That is clearly a mistake. What occurred in Russia – what happened certainly to me – could happen anywhere.

WHILE I was jailed for political protest, I learned that jail doesn’t just teach you to follow the guidelines. It teaches you to think you could hardly ever break them.

It’s inevitable which the jail gates will open up at some point. But this doesn’t mean that you leave the ‘prisoner’ category and move directly into the category of ‘the free’.

Freedom does not exist if you don’t fight for it every day.

This is the story about how exactly I made a choice.

We are all Pussy Riot.

And actions break fear.

‘To Back Down an Inches is to stop a Mile’.