This is a fascinating story of the courageous life of a political dissident in the last decades of the Soviet regime, told with scrupulous attention to detail and awareness that his conscience and convictions, experiences and faith have contributed to an extraordinary life.

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Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile. This memoir by a prominent Ukrainian dissident, now in English translation, offers a unique account that spans the entire postwar period, from the author's childhood in newly Soviet western Ukraine and coming of age within the Communist system to the collapse of the Soviet Union, concluding with his reflections on culpability and justice in the post-Soviet context. Marynovych's description of the varied landscape of Ukrainian dissent in the 1960s and 1970s focuses on the emerging human rights movement, especially the creation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, of which he was a founding member. He vividly recounts his encounters with the Soviet repressive apparatus, including his arrest and trial, and offers a rich picture of daily life in a Siberian prison camp and his internal exile in Kazakhstan. Imbued with the author's deep Christian convictions, this memoir sheds light on the key role faith played for some participants in the Soviet human rights movement, a movement that has most often been seen as having a secular inflection. It also provides a fresh look at the complex place of Ukrainian dissidents within the broader Soviet human rights movement, as well as the interplay between human rights advocates and other dissident groups in Soviet Ukraine. Funded by the Knowledge Unlatched Select 2023 collection, this title is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons License: CC BY NC
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Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.
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Introduction Establishing the Fundamentals of Fate Finally in Kyiv The Era of the Helsinki Movement Arrest, Investigation, and Trial The Labor Camp Up Close In the Vise of the Strict Regime The Pinnacle of the Struggle When the Soul Snagged on Barbed Wire Among the Kazakhs Conclusion
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ISBN
9781648250576
Publisert
2022-08-16
Utgiver
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Vekt
678 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Antall sider
482

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MYROSLAV MARYNOVYCH is a Ukrainian social and political activist and commentator. He is vice-rector for University Mission at Ukrainian Catholic University. ZOYA HAYUK is a freelance translator, language tutor, and former US State Department simultaneous translator. KATHERINE YOUNGER is a historian and Research Director of the program Ukraine in European Dialogue at the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna). TIMOTHY SNYDER is the Temerty Chair in Modern History, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press series Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe.