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Life sentence : memoirs of a Ukrainian political prisoner

Danylo Shumuk, a Ukrainian from the Volhynia region, was at one point Amnesty International’s most “senior” prisoner of conscience, having been incarcerated in various prisons and labor camps for almost thirty-seven years. Life Sentence is his…

Tags: 20th century, Amnesty International, Anti-Soviet Agitation, Anti-Soviet Documents, Artificially Imposed Famine, Autobiography, Bandera, Boremshchyna, Canada, Communism, Communist Ideology, Communist Literature, Communist Party of Western Ukraine, Danylo Shumuk, Democracy, Edward Kuznetsov, Enemy of the People, Guerrilla Warfare, Habsburg Empire, Human Rights, Humanism, Incarceration, Intelligentsia, Interwar, Interwar Poland, Ivan Svitlychny, KGB, Khorol, Manuscript, Memoirs, Memoirs of Danylo Shumuk, Mordovian Special-Regime Camp, Nadia Svitlychna, Nationalism, Nazi Occupation of Volhynia, NKVD, Norilsk, Norilsk Camp Strikes, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Polish Government Repression, Polish Prison, Political Prisoners, Poltava. 1933, Pro-Moscow, Propaganda, Reichskommissariat Ukraine, Rural Ukrainians, SALT II Negotiations, Selrob, Sluzhba Bepeky, Soviet Labor Camps, Soviet Occupation of Ukraine, Soviet Partisans, Soviet Repression, Soviet Union, Stalin, Treaty of Riga, Tsarist Restrictions, Ukrainian Cultural Defense, Ukrainian Dissidents, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainian Nationalist Movement, Ukrainian Resistance, Ukrainian-Polish Conflict, Ukrainian-Polish Relations, Underground Communist Activity, UPA, Volhynia Oblast, War Criminals, Warsaw Pact, Western Ukraine History, World War II

Ukraine’s Current Foreign Policy

CIUS seminar audio. On January 31, 2008, his Excellency Ihor Ostash (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Canada), presented on “Ukraine’s Current Foreign Policy."Introductions begin at 3:25. Speech begins at 5:05.Found in CIUS…

Tags: CIUS Seminar, Democracy, Elections, Europe, European Union, Foreign Policy, Ihor Ostash, NATO, Post-1991, Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, Yulia Tymoshenko

Detente, the Helsinki Accords and the Soviet Opposition: A Discussion with Dissident Leonid Plyushch

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. 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…

Tags: 20th century, CIUS Seminar, Democracy, Diaspora, Dissidents, Helsinki Group, Human Rights, Leonid Plyushch, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Union