{"product_id":"kandyba-ivan-za-pravdu-i-spravedlyvist-miunkhen-1967","title":"Kandyba Ivan. For Truth and Justice. [Munich], 1967","description":"\u003cp\u003eIvan O. Kandyba. For Truth and Justice: To First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Shelest Yukhymovych.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[Munich]: Confederation of Free Ukrainian Professional Organizations (KUVPO), 1967. — 30 pp. Reprint from the journal Suchasnist, December 1967. Published through the efforts and funds of the Munich branch of the Ukrainian Christian Workers' Movement (UKHRR).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher's cover of grey-olive paper with title text; the pamphlet is stapled together with two staples. The cover shows natural darkening and slight wear at the edges; the lower end of the spine is slightly rubbed; there are several reddish stains at the top of the back cover; prices for West Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Sweden, the USA, and Canada are printed on it. The paper of the text block is evenly yellowed, and the block is tight. At the end are explanations of abbreviations and publisher's advertisements for Suchasnist. Pencil markings \"146\", \"(29)\", \"32\" are on the front cover. On the title page, the surnames of those convicted in the Ukrainian Workers' and Peasants' Union case are printed in ink in a column: Lukyanenko, Kandyba, Virun, Lutskiv, Libovych, Borovnytskyi, Kypysh. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as an early document of the Ukrainian dissident movement, smuggled out of a Soviet camp and published in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Kandyba, a political prisoner in a Mordovian camp, smuggled a letter to First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Shelest out of the camp in 1966. It is a complaint about the closed 1961 trial of members of the Ukrainian Workers' and Peasants' Union (URSS) — an underground group of Lviv lawyers who advocated for Ukraine's withdrawal from the USSR by referendum. In May 1961, the Lviv Regional Court sentenced Lev Lukyanenko to death, later commuted to 15 years in prison, Kandyba to 15 years, and the rest to 10 years. At the end of the publication are explanations of Soviet abbreviations — from \"KDB\" to articles of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR — for the Western reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Kandyba (1930–2002) — lawyer, dissident, political prisoner, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Born in the village of Stulno in Volodavshchyna (now Poland), his family was deported to the Ukrainian SSR in 1945. Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Lviv University (1953), worked as a notary, judge, and lawyer. Served a full 15-year sentence in Mordovian and Perm camps and Vladimir Prison; in 1981, he was sentenced again to 10 years in special-regime camps and 5 years of exile; released in 1988. In independent Ukraine, he headed the OUN Leadership in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe letter was printed in the journal Suchasnist in December 1967, and in the same year published as a separate pamphlet at the expense of the Munich branch of the UKHRR under the KUVPO imprint. The prices on the cover in marks, francs, pounds, and dollars indicate that the pamphlet was distributed among Ukrainians in Western Europe and North America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589843300723,"sku":"SKU-00385","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528951480691.jpg?v=1793988340","url":"https:\/\/archivevam.com\/en\/products\/kandyba-ivan-za-pravdu-i-spravedlyvist-miunkhen-1967","provider":"ARCHIVEVAM РІДКІСНІ КНИГИ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}