Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953

by Hiroaki Kuromiya

Conscience on Trialreveals the startling story, kept secret for sixty years, of ordinary citizens caught up in the elaborate machinery of political terror in Stalinist Ukraine. In 1952, fourteen poor, barely literate Seventh-Day Adventists living on the margins of Soviet society were clandestinely tried for allegedly advocating pacifism and adhering to the Saturday Sabbath. The only written records of this trial were sealed in the KGB archives in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442644613
• ISBN13: 9781442644618
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher