Ukrainian Dissidents: An Anthology of Texts (Ukrainian Voices)

Ukrainian Dissidents: An Anthology of Texts (Ukrainian Voices)

Oleksii Sinchenko (Editor), Dmytro Stus (Editor), Leonid Finberg (Editor)
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Publication Date: March 16th, 2021
Publisher:
Ibidem Press
ISBN:
9783838215518
Pages:
330
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Description

This anthology draws attention to the Ukrainian dissident movement and offers detailed insights into this phenomenon among Western readers. The stories of ideas and personal undertakings are unfolding before the reader in a vivid pulsation of texts that testify for themselves. The collection gathers texts from different genres: from poetry, public speeches, and samvydav (self-published, uncensored) texts to court speeches, texts on being held in jails, special psychiatric hospitals for those not accepting the official ideology, and prison camps, and finally to self-reflection on personal experiences of opposing the totalitarian system.

The variety of texts creates a multidimensional and meaningful picture of the Ukrainian dissident movement--a generation of Ukrainian public and cultural figures who, one way or the other, insisted on their freedom of speech and made history by daring to challenge the official ideology and culture.

The book is compiled by Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, and Leonid Finberg. Scholarly reviewing of the book by Myroslav Marynovych.

About the Author

Dr. Oleksii Sinchenko studied Ukrainian Language and Literature at the Taras Shevchenko National University (Kyiv, Ukraine). Since 2009 he is Associate Professor at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. His previous books include Communication strategies in Theory of Literature: Author, Text, Reader (Kyiv, Logos, 2015), Authorities, Society, Citizen: Problems of Interaction in Modern Ukraine. An Analytical Report (Kyiv, IPIEND named after. I.F. Kuras, NATIONAL Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2013) - collective monography, Ukrainian Culture: The Evolution of Crisis Consciousness (Ternopil, Jura, 2013) - collective monography. Dr. Dmytro Stus studied philology at Kyiv State University. Since 2012 he is Chief Executive of the Taras Shevchenko National Museum. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the Kyivska Rus literary-critical journal and head of the department of criticism and bibliography of the Suchasnist journal. Leonid Finberg studied in at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Since 1997, he is chief-editor of the Dukh i Litera publishing house and since 2007 the director of the Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East-European Jews of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

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