The Chornovil Papers
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 23 cm. xxi, [1] 246, [2] pages. Footnotes. Maps. Appendix is a Partial List of Published Works of the "Criminals". DJ price clipped, DJ worn and frayed at edges, DJ scuffed and scratched. Foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Introduction by Frederick C. Barghoorn. Viacheslav Maksymovych Chornovil (December 24, 1937 – March 25, 1999) was a Ukrainian politician. A prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s and 1970s for his political views. One of the most prominent political figures of the 1980s–1990s, Chornovil paved the way for contemporary Ukraine to regain its independence. In the late 1980s he actively participated in the Ukrainian national movement becoming the first leader of the People's Movement of Ukraine (better known as Rukh). In 1988 there was a first attempt to create the "Democratic Front in support of Perestroika" in Lviv only to be dispersed by the Soviet OMON canine unit. Later he promoted several nationally oriented actions. Chornovil ran for President of Ukraine in 1991 but was defeated, winning only in western Ukraine. He was one of the most important members of Rukh, People's Movement of Ukraine. He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada for the People's Movement of Ukraine in 1994 and 1998 and was the head of that party. Vyacheslav Chornovil was founder and editor-in-chief of the independent socio-political newspaper Chas-Time (from 1995 to 1999). Chornovil was expected to be the opposition candidate to president Kuchma in the 1999 presidential election. Chornovil's campaign ended, when he died in a car crash. On August 23, 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko unveiled a monument to Chornovil. On March 25, 2009 a funeral service was held near the memorial sign in Boryspil, and admirers (including the Mayor of Kyiv (then Leonid Chernovetskyi)) laid flowers on his monument in Kyiv to mark the 10-year anniversary of Chornovil's death. In 2009, a Ukrainian stamp devoted to Chornovil was issued. In August 2000, by presidential decree, he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine and the Order of the State for his services in promoting Ukraine’s independence. Memorial museums dedicated to him were opened in Kyiv (in 2002) and in the village of Vilkhovets in Zvenyhorodka raion, Cherkasy oblast (in 2006). In 2003 the Viacheslav Chornovil State prize in Journalism was established. Named in his honor have been streets in thirty-one Ukrainian cities, a square in Kyiv, a college in Ternopil (in 2003), the Lviv State Institute of Advanced Technologies and Management (2005–11), and the Institute of Ecology, Environmental Protection, and Tourism (est 2011) at the Lviv Polytechnic National University. Chornovil’s works in ten volumes (2002–14) were published in Kyiv; the tenth volume contains memoirs about him. Condition: Very good / Fair.
Keywords: Soviet Union, Russia, Prison Camps, Journalists, Frederick Barghoorn, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ukraine, Camp No. 17, Political Prisoners, KGB, Secret Trials, Intellectuals, Dissidents, Petitions, Anti-Soviet Propaganda, Zalyvakha, Masyutko, Karavans'ky
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