TY  - GEN
T1  - Conscience on trial : the fate of fourteen pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953
A1  - Kuromiya, Hiroaki
LA  - English
LA  - Russian
LA  - Ukrainian
PP  - Toronto ; Buffalo
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn798903000
AB  - "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.
OP  - 212
NO  - Trial records translated from the Russian and the Ukrainian.
CN  - KLA40.P64 K87 2012eb
SN  - 1442661070
SN  - 9781442661073
SN  - 9781442644618
SN  - 1442644613
KW  - Trials (Political crimes and offenses) : Soviet Union : History : 20th century.
KW  - Trials (Political crimes and offenses) : Ukraine : History : 20th century.
KW  - Soviet Union : Politics and government : 1936-1953.
KW  - Pacifists : Ukraine : History : 20th century.
KW  - Adventists : Ukraine : History : 20th century.
KW  - Persecution : Ukraine : History : 20th century.
KW  - Procès (Crimes et délits politiques) : Ukraine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Procès (Crimes et délits politiques) : URSS : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Ukraine : Vie religieuse.
KW  - URSS : Politique et gouvernement : 1936-1953.
KW  - Pacifistes : Ukraine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Adventistes : Ukraine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Persécutions : Ukraine : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Eastern.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Former Soviet Republics.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Adventists
KW  - Pacifists
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Ukraine
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -