Profile of Ukrainian Dissidents
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. <br /><br />On March 16, 1978, B. Krawchenko and J. Carter presented a seminar entitled "Profile of Ukrainian Dissidents." B. Krawchenko is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and a research associate in the Institute. J. Carter is a computer analyst with the Government of Alberta and a graduate student in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta.<br /><br /> Their seminar reported the findings of a research project which collected data from a variety of samvydav sources on almost one thousand dissidents in the Ukrainian SSR. The data was coded and fed into a computer. The speakers outlined the various steps involved in the project — from research design to code book — and gave some preliminary results of their study.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1569">CIUS <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 4 (Spring 1978)</span></a>
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March 16, 1978
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Ivan Dziuba—From Internationalism or Russification to Facets of a Crystal
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. <br /><br />The Institute's fourth seminar of the current academic year took place on November 17. Michael Savaryn, first year law student at the University of Alberta, spoke on "Ivan Dziuba—From International- ism or Russification to Facets of a Crystal. The writers of the 1960s gave Ukrainian cultural life a spark of inspiration.<br /><br /> Ivan Dziuba, a literary critic, symbolized the post-Stalin renaissance in Ukraine by becoming a political activist. For ten years, seemingly motivated by uncompromising conviction, Dziuba fearlessly criticized government policies; his actions culminated in the preparation and circulation of the now renowned dissertation Internationalism or Russification. Then, quite unexpectedly, Dziuba broke down under pressure and recanted.<br /><br /> Valentyn Moroz attributes this downfall to Dziuba's lack of fervent faith combined with too much logic and "realism." Leonid Pliushch, on the other hand, believes that Dziuba lacked the necessary ideological persistence, and that his arguments were overly emotional. There is also a third interpretation Dziuba was part of a reformist movement in Ukraine whose success depended on a strong lobby for reform and compromise by Ukraine's top political leaders. Indeed, Shelest, the first secretary of the C.P.U. , encouraged efforts to improve the status of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine, and Dziuba naturally became a fullblown political activist at a time when the system seemed to offer genuine opportunities for reform.<br /><br /> Two trends have been evident within the dissident movement in Ukraine: one consisted of reformists willing to compromise with the system while demanding reform, another consisted of uncompromising revolutionaries who lack contact with the political elite. When in 1972 the entire political elite in Ukraine was purged, Shelestivshchyna fell, and Dziuba, imprisoned at that time, saw his movement torn to shreds. He had become a dying remnant of a bygone era. Resistance was futile because his self-imposed duty was reformism, and he had adhered to it to the end of its possible life.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1567">CIUS </a><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1567">Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 2 (Winter 1977)</a> </span>
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November 3, 1977
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English, Ukrainian
Detente, the Helsinki Accords and the Soviet Opposition: A Discussion with Dissident Leonid Plyushch
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. <br /><br /><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">On September 2, 1977, Mr. Leonid Plyushch, a well-known Soviet Ukrainian dissident and former political prisoner presented an Institute seminar entitled "Detente, the Helsinki Accords and the Soviet Opposition: A Discussion with Dissident Leonid Plyushch." Before his dismissal and imprisonment in 1968 Mr. Plyushch worked in the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in Kiev. He was allowed to leave the Soviet Union on January 8, 1976 following an international campaign on his behalf. The chairmen of a number of University departments, as well as several invited guests, attended the seminar. / Mr. Plyushch began by discussing the economic and moral crises facing Soviet society. The present leadership does not allow for an open discussion of the poor state of the Soviet economy and the rising crime rate, and relies on an elaborate system of "disinformation" to conceal these problems. There is a serious lack of information about crime and various forms of deviance in the Soviet Union, and even scientific-technological research is hampered by the prevailing secrecy and by strange (even irrational) demands from above. To continue stifling discussion of the problems, however, will prove fruitless. The contradictions in Soviet society, Plyushch declared, will lead to a political crisis, unless there is greater democratization in all sectors of public life. / The dissidents, those who refuse to go along with the system of the "big lie," demand that the Soviet Union respect its own constitution and the international human rights agreements which it has signed. All sectors of public opinion in the West must ensure that Soviet and western governments do not find some accommodation which would allow for the continuing repression of free thought in the Soviet Union. / The most valuable aspect of the seminar was its interdisciplinary character. During the stimulating question period, Mr. Plyushch, dealt with a wide range of questions on topics such as Soviet scientific policy, child psychology, the theory of games, and structuralism.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1566">CIUS <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Newsletter Vol 2 Issue 1 (Fall 1977) </span></a><br /></span>
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September 2, 1977
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English, Ukrainian
Dissident Poets in Ukraine
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CIUS
Fall 1982
English
The Political Thought of Soviet Ukrainian Dissent
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CIUS
Fall 1981
English