03532nam 2200709 450 991077920480332120230410060124.01-4426-6108-91-4426-6107-010.3138/9781442661073(CKB)2550000000106948(EBL)3280548(SSID)ssj0000717139(PQKBManifestationID)12284296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000717139(PQKBWorkID)10725064(PQKB)10905542(CEL)438705(OCoLC)798903000(CaBNVSL)slc00229651(MiAaPQ)EBC3280548(MiAaPQ)EBC4669767(DE-B1597)483059(OCoLC)1004882943(DE-B1597)9781442661073(Au-PeEL)EBL4669767(CaPaEBR)ebr11256289(MdBmJHUP)musev2_105966(EXLCZ)99255000000010694820160920h20122012 uy 0engur|nu---mu||utxtccrConscience on trial the fate of fourteen pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953 /Hiroaki KuromiyaToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2012.©20121 online resource (223 p.)Trial records translated from the Russian and the Ukrainian.1-4426-4461-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Arrests -- Stalin, religion, and the adventists of Bila Tserkva -- Interrogations (1) -- Interrogations (2) -- Testimonies and confrontations -- The trial -- Appeals and exonerations -- Conclusion and epilogue."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.Trials (Political crimes and offenses)Soviet UnionHistory20th centuryTrials (Political crimes and offenses)UkraineHistory20th centuryPacifistsUkraineHistory20th centuryAdventistsUkraineHistory20th centurySoviet UnionPolitics and government1936-1953Trials (Political crimes and offenses)HistoryTrials (Political crimes and offenses)HistoryPacifistsHistoryAdventistsHistory345.470231Kuromiya Hiroaki128089MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779204803321Conscience on trial3801197UNINA