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Universe Behind Barbed Wire: Memoirs of a Ukrainian Soviet Dissident

Contributor(s): Marynovych, Myroslav (Author), Hayuk, Zoya (Translator), Younger, Katherine (Editor), Snyder, Timothy (Foreword by)

ISBN: 9781580469814

Publisher: University of Rochester Press

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Pub Date: May 15, 2021

Dewey: B

LCCN: 2020056171

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.40" H x 9.10" L x 6.10" W ( 1.95 lbs) 482 pages

Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

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Description: Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.

Brief description: KATHERINE YOUNGER is a historian and Research Director of the program Ukraine in European Dialogue at the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna).

Review Quotes: This is a fascinating story of the courageous life of a political dissident in the last decades of the Soviet regime, told with scrupulous attention to detail and awareness that his conscience and convictions, experiences and faith have contributed to an extraordinary life.-- "In Trust"

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