Stalins Liquidation Game - The Unlikely Case of Oleksandr Shumskyi, His Survival in Soviet

Ukrainian communist Oleksandr Shumskyi's case offers unique insight into a survival strategy in Stalin's terror machine. Shumskyi endured his tortures; his refusal to confess to false charges denied his interrogators a key piece to demonstrate the "legality" of their investigations. Stalin's Liquidation Game examines resistance and survival.

About the author

Filip Slaveski is the author of Remaking Ukraine after World War II and The Soviet Occupation of Germany. He is Senior Lecturer in Russian, Soviet, and East European History at the Australian National University.Yuri Shapoval is Professor at the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Summary

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin’s Soviet Union during the 1930s and forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Oleksandr Shums´kyi, the Ukrainian Marxist revolutionary, was one of the few to have refused and to protest. Stalin’s Liquidation Game opens a window into understanding Soviet repression in the Ukraine.

Product details

• Authors: Yuri Shapoval, Filip Slaveski, Filip Shapoval Slaveski, Slaveski Filip
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.04.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9780674291591
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29159-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Prisoners of War, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: historical, political and military, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, HISTORY / Europe / Ukraine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional