In the Labyrinth of the Kgb - Ukraine''s Intelligentsia in the 1960s1970s

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: "The Revolution of Poets" and Re-Stalinization
Chapter Two: Petro Shelest, the Literati, and the "Jewish Question"
Chapter Three: The Writers, the Dissent, and the Human Rights Movement in the West
Chapter Four: The Labyrinths of Silence and Psychiatric Abuse
Chapter Five: The Writers and the Chekists' Discourse about the Holodomor
Chapter Six: The Years of Timelessness
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Olga Bertelsen

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.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Bertelsen, Bertelsen Olga
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793608949
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-894-9
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ukraine, Russia, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, c 1960 to c 1970, Relating to Jewish people & groups, Social groups: religious groups & communities, History of specific lands, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Russia / General