Resistance Movement in Ukraine: 1960—1990. Encyclopedia Chief Editor Osyp Zinkewych 2012 896 pp., 64 illustrations ISBN 978-966-1676-42-7
The second Resistance movement in Ukraine: 1960—1990 edition provides the updated information one needs to know to understand the processes which started in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1960s and finally ended up with gaining the independence in August 1991. A range of topics are covered: a phenomenon called “shistdesyatnyky” (generation of the sixties), samvydav (self-publishing), the emergence and development of dissident and human rights movement in the USSR. The encyclopedia contains biographical data of key movement figures and their works (more than 800 articles), materials on self-published and informal publications (approximately 400 articles), articles on underground and legal human rights organizations in Ukraine and in the West (about 150 articles), more than 800 individual and group photos. Particular attention is paid to the repressions of Soviet regime and to those activists all over the world, who rose their voices in protection of Ukrainian dissidents.
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Osyp Zinkewych. Diary. 1948—1949, 1987—1968, 1971—1976. They say Osyp Zinkewych lived a life of three. In his young years he was an active member of Ukrainian underground organizations, was betrayed and got into German prison right after the World War II. Later he was a publisher, who organized illegal routes for the transfer of self-published works prohibited in the USSR (known as samvydav) and published them in the USA, Canada, France and Australia. He was an active member of human rights movement, who fought for the lives of political prisoners in the Soviet Union. The KGB wrote personal references to the head of the Communist party of the Soviet Ukraine about his antiSoviet activity. Soviet press called him the “horn of the cold war”.
2016 504 pp. ISBN 928-617-7173-35-8
His diary resembles an exciting spy novel, and the real names of its several heroes are secret even today.
DIARY Oles Obertas. Ukrainian samvydav: literary criticism and journalism (1960s–1970s) The book illuminates the phenomenon of ukrainian selfpublishing (samvydav) — underground literary process, which took leading part in organisation of Resistance Movement in Soviet Ukraine in 1960s—1970s. The research depicts the historical development of samvydav as a form of dissident activity, endangered by Soviet censorship. The author discovers the preсonditions and circumstances of samvydav appearance, provides thorough analysis of documents of literary criticism and journalism, and brings understanding of the cultural and social role of samvydav in Ukraine.
2010 300 pp. ІSВN 978-966-8499-96-8
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UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE: WOMEN VOICE
Svitlana Kyrychenko People of no Fear. Ukrainian Saga: Memoirs
Svitlana Kyrychenko was one of the most important woman voices of Ukrainian Resistance Movement in 1960—1980. She took the most active part in dissident and human rights movement spreading the information about political repressions in the Soviet Union due to her contacts with dissidents in the Baltic countries and Moscow. In 1979 her husband Yuriy Badzio was arrested and imprisoned for political reasons. At that time she used camp dates to take out and transfer illegally to Western countries the poetry of imprisoned ukrainian writers, especially Vasyl Stus and Mykola Rudenko. People of no Fear is the unique testimony of historical scale. It witnesses the epoch, describes the most important figures of the time as well as dozens of the ordinary members of Ukrainian Resistance Movement.
2012 920 pp. ISBN 978-966-2164-57-2
Stefaniia Shabatura: her life and art Edited by Solomiia Diakiv
The book covers life of Stefaniia Shabatura — one of three most important ukrainian woman artists of the period called “shistdesyatnyky” (generation of the sixties). In 1972 she was arrested by KGB and imprisoned for “antiSoviet activity”, and spent eight years in strict regime camps. Her 70 exlibrises and over 150 paintings were destroyed. Stefaniia Shabatura: her life and art focuses on the opposition of an artist and the Soviet totalitarian system. Given in the form of an interview the book presents artist’s own interpretation of her confrontation with the regime.
2015 712 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-14-3
Alla Horska: The soul of Ukrainian sixties Edited by Liudmyla Ohneva
Alla Horska was one of three leading Ukrainian woman artists of the period called “shistdesyatnyky” — generation of the sixties (alongside with Stefaniia Shabatura and Halyna Sevruk). She was an active member of resistance movement and took part in protest actions against the imprisonment of Ukrainian human rights activists. Finally she was murdered in unclear circumstances in 1970. The idea of this book belongs to prominent Ukrainian dissident Viacheslav Chornovil, who coined the idea of it already in the early 1970s. Naturally it had no chance to be published until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Alla Horska: The soul of Ukrainian sixties includes her letters, statements and appeals to the public, diaries, notes about art, photos and reproductions of her works, memoirs of her son and friends. In 2016 the book was awarded by Lviv Bookforum contest.
2016 256 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-44-0
Yevhen Hrytsiak. The Norilsk Uprising. After the Uprising: Short memoirs In 1953 Soviet punitive system of labour camps (known as GULAG) was shaken by three uprisings. The first and the largest one was in Norilsk followed by Vorkuta and Kengir. The prisoners in Norilsk were brought to despair with inhuman living conditions, sadistic bullying and murders. Finally they rebelled and demanded softening of the camp regime as well as democratisation the whole Soviet society. The author of this memoirs became the leader of Norilsk uprising. He survived those events and after the term of imprisonment wrote these remarkable memoirs. The book contains two parts. The Norilsk uprising was transferred illegally from the USSR and published in 1980 in the USA, subsequently repeatedly reprinted in Ukraine. After the Uprising is the completely new text which tells the reader about the author’s further life.
2013 240 pp.
ISBN 978-966-2164-63-3
Mariia Muzychka Memoirs of ukrainian katorga convict This book offers memoirs of a young woman, Ukrainian patriot priest’s wife Mariia Muzychka, whose life was ruined in July 1939 on the day her husband was arrested, being denounced by Soviets. Soon after the beginning of the World War II her village Chertizh (Lviv oblast) gets under Soviet occupation. Mariia remains separated from her children and her property, and shortly afterwards is sent to exile as “enemy of the people”. Together with other political prisoners she is forced to hard labour in steppes of Kazakhstan. How come she withstanded, having no one and nothing to rely on but faith? Memoirs of Mariia Muzychka bring to life not only her own story, but stories of thousands of Ukrainians, who experienced Soviet occupation, exile and labour camps.
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2017 112 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-72-3
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Mariia Savchyn Thousand Roads. Memoirs The memoirs of Mariia Savchyn span the time of the World War II and the period of almost ten years afterwards. During this time, the author participated in the struggle of the Ukrainian armed liberation movement, known as Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). In addition to recounting her personal life, the author describes her surroundings, various people, the UPA struggle against the Polish army and NKVD border troops, the forced resettlement of the Ukrainian population to the USSR, the UPA’s collaboration with the Polish underground etc. The most difficult period was the spring of 1947 when she experienced a great personal tragedy. While travelling with her baby-son to meet her husband, she was caught by police in Krakow. She escaped, but her baby remained captured by the communists.
E O S
2017 544 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-65-5
The author composed her memoirs not long after this time, so her remembrances were still vivid. She writes in the first person, in a colourful, lively manner, with many dialogues. As she spent many years in the underground, in different regions and various conditions, the memoirs provide us with the broad picture of underground struggle. The fact that she was the wife of a prominent underground activist and thus was well-informed adds depth to the subjects depicted.
Kateryna Mandryk-Kuibida Freedom Calls us to Battle She was seventeen when she became a participant of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine in the Ukrainian liberation movement, known as the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). She was only twenty three when she was arrested by Soviet security police. Her role was to deliver messages, nevertheless she was convicted as “especially dangerous offender” in the strict regime camps for many years. This book is her confession about all torture and bullying she suffered during the investigation and imprisonment. The book also contains her civic lyrics written in those intolerable conditions.
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2017 112 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-72-3
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Bohdan Mysiuha. Halyna Sevruk: artbook & monograph
ARTBOOK
This edition features systematically arranged artistic heritage of Ukrainian painter, ceramist and muralist Halyna Sevruk (born 1929). The author Bohdan Mysiuha analyses Sevruk’s works of art as a part of cultural phenomenon of sixtiers (“shistdesyatnyky”) in Ukraine, explores evolution of the artist’s individual style, provides general image of literary and artistic life in Kyiv in the 1960s–1980s. The research is based on pieces of art, found in archives, state museums and private collections in Ukraine, USA and Canada. Firstly published materials include illustrations with Sevruk’s graphics, paintings, small forms of sculpture, several types of mural art etc. The edition includes art reviews and critical articles, dedicated to Sevruk’s work, published during the 1970s–1980s, and some pieces of artist’s correspondence.
2011 240 pp. ISBN 978-966-2164-24-4
Stefaniia Shabatura: The Unbreakable Spirit of Creation Edited by Solomiia Dyakiv
Stefaniia Shabatura: The Unbreakable Spirit of Creation is a unique edition which presents the distinctive artworks of the artist.The subjects of her special interest were tapestries and carpets. Stephania Shabatura evaluated her own technique of weaving tapestries which remains impossible to repeat till now. Being an artist did not mean to her being out of public processes. She took active part in human rights movement. She also was the member of Ukrainian Helsinki Group. For that she was imprisoned for “anti-Soviet activity”. Her 70 exlibrises and over 150 paintings were destroyed. The album presents readers all survived works of the artist.
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2017 168 pp. ISBN 978-966-2164-90-9
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Volodymyr Tylishchak 1930. U.S.S.R. Rebellion In 1930, on the eve of the Holodomor, a massive wave of peasant protest rallies swept through Ukraine. People protested against Stalin’s policy of dispossession and forced collectivization. Total amount of uprisings numbers up to 4000 within a year. Some of them outgrew into armed riots. The book describes the course and peculiarities of certain protests and riots in different regions of Ukraine. For the first time the names of their instigators are opened to the readers. The story itself is complemented by rare photos from archives and different Ukrainian museums.
HISTORY
2016 208 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-55-6
Mykola Davydiuk. How Putin’s propaganda works In his latest research Ukrainian political scientist and analyst Mykola Davydiuk offers the set of essays, which cover urgent questions of European political strategy. What is the target audience Putin’s propaganda is aiming for and how its mechanisms work; what is a hybrid war and how it is connected with the idea of “russkii mir” (russian world); who is in control of the propaganda; what are the ideological allies of Russia and where the danger might come from; how can we resist in the information warfare and which methods are better to use against Kremlin hybrid separatism — these are some of the questions the author answers in his book.
2016 200 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-60-0
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Serhii Oksenyk Forest, Sky, Water. #1 Lysyy. #2 Lelia. #3 Ingeneer.
2014 200 pp. + 280 pp. + 344 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-10-5 (#1) ISBN 978-617-7173-11-2 (#2) ISBN 978-617-7173-12-9 (#3)
Serhii Komberianov Memory thiefs Imagine that one day you have lost all your memories. All you have now is your body and your language. Is it enough to remain a fullfledged person? How do you know who you are?
FICTION
When the twelve-year-old boy bears the burden of responsibility for others, when the whole terrible forest rises against him, when he has to decide what is right and what is wrong, every step of a dangerous journey may turn out to be the last ... Will the hero and his teenager friends get to the goal of the journey? Can they overcome the terrible force that seeks to destroy all living things on the Earth? This fantasy trilogy is one of the best in contemporary Ukrainian literature for elder children.
Heroes of this exciting novel seek for the appropriate answers. Still the main challenge is to find out who has done it to them and why. This tense thriller forces a reader to think over what people we would be without all our knowledge and experience. You have a chance to find it out in Serhiy Komberianov’s novel.
2017 212 pp. ISBN 978-617-7173-67-9
SMOLOSKYP PUBLISHERS (founded in 1967) Smoloskyp Publishers was founded in 1967, Baltimore, USA, by Ukrainian political emigrants. For more than 20 years it published books on dissent movement in the USSR and related topics. Most books were published both in Ukrainian and English. In 1992 Smoloskyp moved to Kyiv, Ukraine. Smoloskyp produces about 30 titles per year, focusing on memoirs of political prisoners who suffered from soviet repressive system, books on dissent movement in the USSR, politics and history. “Rozstriliane Vidrodzhennia” (Executed Revival) series offers books by Ukrainian classic authors murdered in 19201930th. Since 1995 it also provides literary contest for young authors giving them a good start in literature. Serhii Zhadan, Taras Prokhasko, Sofia Andrukhovych, Oleh Kotsarev, Pavlo Korobchuk, Myroslav Laiuk and many other well-known authors started their literary career with Smoloskyp literary contest.