About this book
This anthology of seminal texts documents the development of the post-war anti-Soviet Ukrainian dissident movement. The collection is designed to introduce, via some crucial primary sources, Western and other non-Ukrainian readers to various forms of Ukrainian opposition to the communist regime. Stories of ideas and personal undertakings are unfolding before the reader in a vivid pulsation of texts that testify for themselves. The anthology gathers contributions from different genres. They range from poetry, public speeches, and samvydav-uncensored, self-published-texts to court speeches. They come from dissidents who were held in jails, special psychiatric hospitals (for not accepting the official ideology), and prison camps. Finally, they include self-reflections by dissidents on their personal experience of opposing the totalitarian system. This variety of contributions creates a multidimensional picture of the Ukrainian dissident movement-a generation of prominent Ukrainian public and cultural figures who, in one way or another, insisted on their freedom of speech and made history by daring to challenge the official ideology and culture. This remarkable book about the struggle for freedom has been compiled by Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, and Leonid Finberg. Scholarly reviewed by Myroslav Marynovych.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- І. Poetry
- Ihor Каlуnеts
- Lina Kostenko
- Vasyl Symonenko
- Vasyl Stus
- ІІ. Public Speeches and Statements
- Ivan Dziuba. Speech on the 25th Anniversary of the Babyn Yar Tragedy
- Ukrainian Intellectuals Protest Arrest and Imprisonment of Their Colleagues in Ukraine
- A Letter From the Creative Youth of Dnipropetrovsk
- Zenoviy Krasivsky. Statement on Joining the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (1979)
- ІІІ. Samvydav and Tamvydav Essays
- Valentyn Moroz. A Report From the Beria Reservation
- Mykhaylo Osadchy. Cataract
- Yevhen Sverstiuk. Grains of Ukrainian-Israeli Solidarity
- IV. Last Words on Trials
- Vyacheslav Chornovil
- Yevhen Sverstiuk
- Mykola Rudenko
- Josef Zissels
- Mustafa Dzhemilev
- V. Testimonies from Prisons, Camps and Exile
- Zenoviy Krasivsky. Vladimir Central Prison
- Boris Penson and Vyacheslav Chornovil. Weekdays of Mordovian Camps
- An Interview with Political Prisoners of Perm Region Camp VS 389/358
- Vasyl Stus. A Gulag Notebook
- From a Psychiatric Clinic and Prison Hospitals
- Valery Marchenko. In Hospital
- VI. Interviews
- A Conversation with Raisa Moroz
- Nadiya Svitlychna’s First Radio Interview in the West
- VII. Rethinking
- Vasyl Lisovy. The Dissident Movement in Ukraine
- Myroslav Marynovych. Summing Up
- Short Bios of the Authors
- Notes