دانلود کتاب Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine: A Study of the Decade of Mass Terror (1929-1939)

Milovan Djilas, in discussing the nationality problem in The Nezo Class, asks: "Who knows anything nowadays about Ukrainian writers and political figures? What has Happened to that nation, which is the same size as France, and was once the most advanced nation in Russia?"

In Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine, Hryhory Kostiuk supplies the answers to these two all-important, tragic questions. This book, a thorough analysis of a decade of Stalinist terror and repression in the Ukraine, gives a detailed account of the fate suffered by the Ukrainian people, its artists, writers, professors, scientists, civil servants, journalists, and poets, between 1929 and 1939 in the course of the establishment and entrenchment of the dictatorship.

Many books have been written about mass terror in the Soviet Union, but, in the main, these have dealt with the purges and Moscow trials between 1936 and 1938. Yet in the Ukraine and in the other Union republics, the weapon of such terror had been wielded by Stalin as early as 1930, long before the infamous Moscow trials. Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine furnishes important new knowledge about a chapter in the history of man's inhumanity to man of which too little is known new knowledge indispensable to our understanding of Stalinist methods and aims. The book tells of the establishment of Soviet centralism, the consolidation of Stalin's dictatorship, and of the destruction of Ukrainian national and social life. It tells of the murder, imprisonment,
and disappearance of Ukrainian writers, artists, actors, end scholars. It tells of the subjugation and destruction of institutions of higher education and scientific research. It tells of tHe purge of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, its Central Committee, and the Soviet Ukrainian government. It tells of the assignment given to one Nikita S. Khrushchev to take over the Ukraine and of how he distinguished himself in carrying out this task.

THE AUTHOR: Hryhory Kontiuk was born in the Ukraine in 1902. In 1925, after completing his primary and secondary education in his native village, he studied philology and the history of literature at the University of Kiev, from which ha was graduated in 1929. Me then attended the
Scientific Research Institute in Kharkov. From 1030 to 1173:2,, he taught the history of literature at the Specialists' Institute in Kharkov, and, from 1933 to 1935, he was professor of the history of literature at Lugansk Pedagogical Institute.

In November, 1935, Hryhory Kostiuk was arrested and sentenced to five years in a concentration camp for "counterrevolutionary activities." He served his sentence at the Vorkuta camp. After his release. He lived in the Ukraine until 1944, when He was deported to Oermany as a slave laborer. After the end of the war, He lived in a German DP camp.

He went to the United States in 1952, and has been living in Nfew York since that time. At present, He is engaged in organizing the papers of the late writer Volodimir Vinnichenko at the Archive of Russian and East European History and CTulture, Columbia University. Mr. Kostiuk is the author of numerous studies and articles, among them The Fall of Postyshev and "The Last Days of Academician M. Hrushevsky." Many of his works have appeared under the pseudonym of B. Podolyak.