True stories

The case of Vasyl Stus

by Vakhtanh Kipiani

Description

Poet and civil rights activist Vasyl Stus (1938-1985) could not attend any of his book presentations. He published his literary works only abroad. Participation in the movement of protesters to the Russification and anti-Ukrainian politics and an active people’s rights protection stance led Stus to the court bench to times and both for the anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. This book contains documents from a six-volume criminal case, which is stored on the shelves of the former Committee for State Security archive of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in Kyiv. The book contains archival documents of the case of Vasyl Stus (records of searches, interrogations, letters, articles, etc.), photographs, articles wrote by Vakhtang Kipiani. The last lifetime notes of Stus are also added - "From the camp notebook", secretly passed to his friends from the soviet camp. Preface to the book is written by Vakhtang Kipiani.

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Foreign rights sold: German and English languages.


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Author Biography

Director of the NGO “Istorychna Pravda” (“Historial Truth”), lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University, print media and book collector, the founder of “Museum of Press Archive” in Kyiv. Alexander Kryvenko “For progress in journalism” award winner (2007), Taras Shevchenko National Prize nominee (2020). First published in the uncensored self-published newspaper “Chornomoria”. In 1997-2010 Kipiani worked for the newspapers “Ukraina Moloda” (Young Ukraine) and “Kyivskie Vedomosti” (Kyiv Time), Focus magazine; TV channels "1 + 1", K1, "Inter", TVi, First National; ZIK, Espresso. The author and compiler of the following books: «In the greatest hour we were born… OUN and UPA», «The library of Historical Truth» (compilation and foreword by Vakhtang Kipiani, Vivat, 2016), «The War of Two Truths: the Ukrainians and Poles in the 20th century», «The Historical truth library» (compilation by Vakhtang Kipiani, Vivat, 2017), «World War II. True stories. (Not) Ours and Other Stories About How It Was» (compilation by Vakhtang Kipiani, Kharkiv, Vivat, 2018) "The Case of Vasyl Stus", «The library of Historical truth» (compilation and foreword by Vakhtang Kipiani, Vivat, 2019)

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Vivat
  • Publication Date 2020
  • Orginal LanguageUkrainian
  • ISBN/Identifier 9789669429278
  • Publication Country or regionUkraine
  • Pages688
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleСправа Василя Стуса
  • Original Language AuthorsКіпіані Вахтанг

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