Conscience on trial [electronic resource] : the fate of fourteen pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953 / Hiroaki Kuromiya.
Kuromiya, Hiroaki.
2012
DK508.84 .K87 2012eb
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Title Conscience on trial [electronic resource] : the fate of fourteen pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953 / Hiroaki Kuromiya.
Author Kuromiya, Hiroaki.
ISBN 9781442661073 (electronic book)
9781442644618
Publication Details Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2012 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012).
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 212 p.) : ill., maps, ports.
Call Number DK508.84 .K87 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 947.708/42
Summary "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.
Note Trial records translated from the Russian and the Ukrainian.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface
Arrests
Stalin, religion, and the adventists of Bila Tserkva
Interrogations (1)
Interrogations (2)
Testimonies and confrontations
The trial
Appeals and exonerations
Conclusion and epilogue.

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