{"product_id":"conscience-on-trial-hiroaki-kuromiya-9781442644618","title":"Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConscience on Trial\u003c\/em\u003e reveals 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 Kiev, and this harrowing episode has until now been unknown even within the Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiroaki Kuromiya has carefully analyzed these newly discovered documents, and in doing so, reveals a fascinating picture of private life and religious belief under the atheist Stalinist regime. Kuromiya convincingly elucidates the mechanism of the Soviet secret police and explores the minds of non-conformist believers -precursors to the revival of dissidence after Stalin's death in 1953.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hiroaki Kuromiya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442644613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442644618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Hiroaki Kuromiya","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065597735167,"sku":"9781442644618","price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cec326d-6bb9-4b89-adbb-6c54f2cc6aab.jpg?v=1768676031","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conscience-on-trial-hiroaki-kuromiya-9781442644618","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}