Conscience on trial
the fate of fourteen pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953
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Publication
2012 - University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
53,000 words, Guess
Page Count
212 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101442644613
- ISBN-139781442644618
- Library of Congress Control Number2012392799
- OCLC Control Number761459473
- Better World Books9781442644618
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25309499M
Classifications
- LCCKLA40.P64 K87 2012
- LCCKLA40.P64K87 2012
- LCCDK508.84 .K87 2012
Description
"Conscience on Trial reveals the startling story, kept secret for sixty years, of ordinary citizens caught up in the elaborate machinery of political terror in Stalinist Ukraine. In 1952, fourteen poor, barely literate Seventh-Day Adventists living on the margins of Soviet society were clandestinely tried for allegedly advocating pacifism and adhering to the Saturday Sabbath. The only written records of this trial were sealed in the KGB archives in Kiev, and this harrowing episode has until now been unknown even within the Ukraine. Hiroaki Kuromiya has carefully analyzed these newly discovered documents, and in doing so, reveals a fascinating picture of private life and religious belief under the atheist Stalinist regime. Kuromiya convincingly elucidates the mechanism of the Soviet secret police and explores the minds of non-conformist believers--precursors to the revival of dissidence after Stalin's death in 1953"--Publisher's website.
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