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Title: |
Ukrainian Dissidents: An Anthology of Texts |
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| Compiled by: |
Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, Leonid Finberg Series edited by: Andreas Umland |
| ISBN10-13: |
3838215516 : 9783838215518 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
210x150mm |
| Pages: |
412 |
| Weight: |
.537 Kg. |
| Published: |
ibidem - March 2021 |
| List Price: |
31.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
European history : Eastern Europe |
| This anthology draws attention to the Ukrainian dissident movement and offers detailed insights into this phenomenon among Western readers. The stories of ideas and personal undertakings are unfolding before the reader in a vivid pulsation of texts that testify for themselves. The collection gathers texts from different genres: from poetry, public speeches, and samvydav (self-published, uncensored) texts to court speeches, texts on being held in jails, special psychiatric hospitals for those not accepting the official ideology, and prison camps, and finally to self-reflection on personal experiences of opposing the totalitarian system. The variety of texts creates a multidimensional and meaningful picture of the Ukrainian dissident movementâ a generation of Ukrainian public and cultural figures who, one way or the other, insisted on their freedom of speech and made history by daring to challenge the official ideology and culture. The book is compiled by Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, and Leonid Finberg. Scholarly reviewing of the book by Myroslav Marynovych. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Poetry; Public Speeches and Statements; Samvydav and Tamvydav Essays; Last Words on Trials; Testimonies from Prisons, Camps and Exile; Interviews; Rethinking; Short Bios of the Authors; Notes. |
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"“There is a popular belief that the Evil Empire collapsed under its own weight and that independence for Ukrainians dropped out of the blue sky. This is an affront for the Ukrainian dissidents to the communist regime. They were the freedom’s yeast. There were only few of them, a handful of men and women. But there would be no bread of freedom without this handful of yeast. This book is about the freedom bread that could not be broken, about freedom overcoming fear.” -- Oleksandr Zinchenko, historian and publicist, Kyiv"
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“This book is about a generation of Ukrainian intellectual and moral leaders who, despite the danger of being apprehended and physically exterminated, resisted the totalitarian Soviet machine. They chose to live in camps with their conscience intact rather than to tolerate the terror and arbitrariness of the authorities on the outside.”
Taras Vozniak, Editor of the Independent Cultural Magazine “¯”, L’viv
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