True stories
The case of Vasyl Stus
by Vakhtanh Kipiani
Description
Poet and civil rights activist Vasyl Stus (1938-1985) could not attend any of his book presentations. He published his literary works only abroad. Participation in the movement of protesters to the Russification and anti-Ukrainian politics and an active people’s rights protection stance led Stus to the court bench to times and both for the anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. This book contains documents from a six-volume criminal case, which is stored on the shelves of the former Committee for State Security archive of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in Kyiv. The book contains archival documents of the case of Vasyl Stus (records of searches, interrogations, letters, articles, etc.), photographs, articles wrote by Vakhtang Kipiani. The last lifetime notes of Stus are also added - "From the camp notebook", secretly passed to his friends from the soviet camp. Preface to the book is written by Vakhtang Kipiani.
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Endorsements
September 2019 - personal award of the director of the NGO "Publishers' Forum" Kateryna Shevchenko at the Publishers' Forum in Lviv-2019. October 2019 — award of the Cherkasy Book Festival in the nomination "Popular science book for adults. Essay writing, journalism, memoirs". December 2019 — members of the Ukrainian PEN Club included "The Case of Vasyl Stus" into the list of the best books of 2019 published by domestic publishing houses, in the "Non-fiction" category. November 2020 — the book is among the nominees for the 2021 Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in the category "Publicism, Journalism". October 2021 — the book won the ranking of the thirty most iconic books of the time of Independence, held by the Ukrainian Book Institute.
Author Biography
Director of the NGO “Istorychna Pravda” (“Historial Truth”), lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University, print media and book collector, the founder of “Museum of Press Archive” in Kyiv. Alexander Kryvenko “For progress in journalism” award winner (2007), Taras Shevchenko National Prize nominee (2020). First published in the uncensored self-published newspaper “Chornomoria”. In 1997-2010 Kipiani worked for the newspapers “Ukraina Moloda” (Young Ukraine) and “Kyivskie Vedomosti” (Kyiv Time), Focus magazine; TV channels "1 + 1", K1, "Inter", TVi, First National; ZIK, Espresso. The author and compiler of the following books: «In the greatest hour we were born… OUN and UPA», «The library of Historical Truth» (compilation and foreword by Vakhtang Kipiani, Vivat, 2016), «The War of Two Truths: the Ukrainians and Poles in the 20th century», «The Historical truth library» (compilation by Vakhtang Kipiani, Vivat, 2017), «World War II. True stories. (Not) Ours and Other Stories About How It Was» (compilation by Vakhtang Kipiani, Kharkiv, Vivat, 2018) "The Case of Vasyl Stus", «The library of Historical truth» (compilation and foreword by Vakhtang Kipiani, Vivat, 2019)
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Vivat
- Publication Date 2020
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789669429278
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages688
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleСправа Василя Стуса
- Original Language AuthorsКіпіані Вахтанг
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