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In the labyrinth of the KGB : Ukraine's intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s
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In the labyrinth of the KGB : Ukraine's intelligentsia in the 1960s-1970s / Olga Bertelsen.
ISBN
9781793608925
179360892X
9781793608932
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
Physical Description
xxvi, 343 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Summary
"This book focuses on the writers who lived through the processes of de-Stalinization and re-Stalinization during the 1960s and 1970s in Soviet Ukraine. The author argues that the KGB unintentionally facilitated the transnational and intercultural links among the Kharkiv multiethnic community of writers"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Bertelsen, Olga. In the labyrinth of the KGB Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"The revolution of poets" and re-Stalinization
Petro Shelest, the Literati, and the "Jewish question"
The writers, the dissent, and the human rights movement in the West
The labyrinths of silence and psychiatric abuse
The writers and the Chekists' discourse about the Holodomor
The years of timelessness.
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