Author: Amnesty International
Publisher: Amnesty International
ISBN: 9780862100063
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Amnesty International report.
Prisoners of Conscience in the USSR
Author: Amnesty International
Publisher: Amnesty International
ISBN: 9780862100063
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Amnesty International report.
Publisher: Amnesty International
ISBN: 9780862100063
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An Amnesty International report.
Khrushchev's Cold Summer
Author: Miriam Dobson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145851X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror. Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime's efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin's death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country's recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society's contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145851X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Between Stalin's death in 1953 and 1960, the government of the Soviet Union released hundreds of thousands of prisoners from the Gulag as part of a wide-ranging effort to reverse the worst excesses and abuses of the previous two decades and revive the spirit of the revolution. This exodus included not only victims of past purges but also those sentenced for criminal offenses. In Khrushchev's Cold Summer Miriam Dobson explores the impact of these returnees on communities and, more broadly, Soviet attempts to come to terms with the traumatic legacies of Stalin's terror. Confusion and disorientation undermined the regime's efforts at recovery. In the wake of Stalin's death, ordinary citizens and political leaders alike struggled to make sense of the country's recent bloody past and to cope with the complex social dynamics caused by attempts to reintegrate the large influx of returning prisoners, a number of whom were hardened criminals alienated and embittered by their experiences within the brutal camp system. Drawing on private letters as well as official reports on the party and popular mood, Dobson probes social attitudes toward the changes occurring in the first post-Stalin decade. Throughout, she features personal stories as articulated in the words of ordinary citizens, prisoners, and former prisoners. At the same time, she explores Soviet society's contradictory responses to the returnees and shows that for many the immediate post-Stalin years were anything but a breath of spring air after the long Stalinist winter.
Judgment in Moscow
Author: Vladimir K Bukovsky
Publisher: Ninth of November
ISBN: 9780998041612
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
First author-approved English translation of Soviet-era dissident's book which uses stolen Communist Party archives to tell the behind-the-scenes story of Soviet collaboration with Western leaders, and the collapse of the Communist regime.
Publisher: Ninth of November
ISBN: 9780998041612
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
First author-approved English translation of Soviet-era dissident's book which uses stolen Communist Party archives to tell the behind-the-scenes story of Soviet collaboration with Western leaders, and the collapse of the Communist regime.
Documents of the Helsinki Monitoring Groups in the U.S.S.R. and Lithuania (1976-1986)
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Documents of the Helsinki Monitoring Groups in the U.S.S.R. and Lithuania (1976-1986): without special title
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Thematic Survey of the Documents of the Moscow Helsinki Group
Author: Li︠u︡dmila Alekseeva
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Soviet Ukrainian Dissent
Author: Jaro Bilocerkowycz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000312739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In this book, the author focuses on an important variant of Soviet dissent from 1963 through March 1985; to deepen understanding of the phenomena of political alienation and dissent; and to stimulate further study of political dissent in the USSR and elsewhere.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000312739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In this book, the author focuses on an important variant of Soviet dissent from 1963 through March 1985; to deepen understanding of the phenomena of political alienation and dissent; and to stimulate further study of political dissent in the USSR and elsewhere.
Unbroken Spirit
Author: Yosef Mendelevich
Publisher: Gefen Books
ISBN: 9789652295637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
At age twenty-two, Yosef Mendelevich participated in an attempt to hijack a plane to the West an act designed to raise awareness about the desperate plight of Soviet Jews. He was arrested before the plane ever left the ground and served twelve years in the Soviet gulag. This is the story of one man s resistance against tyranny, and his daily struggle to retain his Jewishness and his humanity in a system built to extinguish both. This is a testament to the strength of the human soul and an inspiration to us all.
Publisher: Gefen Books
ISBN: 9789652295637
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
At age twenty-two, Yosef Mendelevich participated in an attempt to hijack a plane to the West an act designed to raise awareness about the desperate plight of Soviet Jews. He was arrested before the plane ever left the ground and served twelve years in the Soviet gulag. This is the story of one man s resistance against tyranny, and his daily struggle to retain his Jewishness and his humanity in a system built to extinguish both. This is a testament to the strength of the human soul and an inspiration to us all.
Religious Persecution in the Soviet Union
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East
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Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR.
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description