Table of Contents
Preface 9
I Poetry
Ihor Kalynets
Stained-Glass Windows 15
Green 16
Verses About Uncertainty 16
Lina Kostenko
A shady spot, twilight, a golden day 21
I stop 22
Landscape From My Memory 22
Vasyl Symonenko
Granite Obelisks, Like Medusas 23
Everything Was There. The Road Began to Scream 24
The people are beautiful 24
Vasyl Stus
A hundred years since Sich perished 25
This pain is like the alcohol of agonies 26
You're shade, you're shadow, dusk and long reproof 26
II Public Speeches and Statements
Ivan Dziuba. Speech on the 25th Anniversary of the Babyn Yar Tragedy 29
Ukrainian Intellectuals Protest Arrest and Imprisonment of Their Colleagues in Ukraine 35
A Letter From the Creative Youth of Dnipropetrovsk 41
Zenoviy Krasivsky. Statement on Joining the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (1979) 53
III Samvydav and Tamvydav Essays
Valentyn Moroz. A Report From the Beria Reservation 59
Mykhaylo Osadchy. Cataract 103
Yevhen Sverstiuk. Grains of Ukrainian-Israeli Solidarity 119
IV Last Words on Trials
Vyacheslav Chornovil 131
Yevhen Sverstiuk 141
Mykola Rudenko 145
Josef Zissels 149
Mustafa Dzhemilev 153
V Testimonies from Prisons, Camps, and Exile
Zenoviy Krasivsky. Vladimir Central Prison 159
Boris Penson and Vyacheslav Chornovil. Weekdays of Mordovian Camps 197
An Interview with Political Prisoners of Perm Region Camp VS 389/358 237
Vasyl Stus. A Gulag Notebook 253
From a Psychiatric Clinic and Prison Hospitals Leonid Plyushch. The Madhouse 267
Valery Marchenko. In Hospital 305
VI Interviews
A Conversation with Raisa Moroz 319
Nadiya Svitlychna's First Radio Interview in the West 327
VII Rethinking
Vasyl Lisovy. The Dissident Movement in Ukraine 343
Myroslav Marynovych. Summing Up 355
Short Bios of the Authors 383
Notes 389
