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26 April 2010 14:49

Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror Second Edition to Be Presented April 27

April 27, 2010, at 2:00 p.m., the National Museum of Ukrainian Literature (11 Bohdana Khmelnytsky) will host a presentation of the second edition of Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties scholarly and documentary monograph by Teren Volyn Art Agency and Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation.

Among the participants of the presentation will be:

• Kateryna Yushchenko, Head of the Supervisory Board of the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation;
• John Tefft, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Ukraine;
• Susan Cleary, Cultural Affairs Officer with the Embassy of the United States to Ukraine;
• Yevhen Sverstiuk, public figure and human rights champion;
• Andriy Kryshtalsky, VAA Teren Director;
• Scholars and public figures.

Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror is the first edition of this work in the Ukrainian language. Ukraine was the first post-Soviet country to publish this unique book. Earlier in the Soviet Union territory it was published only in Latvia as samizdat. The Great Terror is an amazingly professional and well-grounded research of the Stalin repressions period in the 1930s. With the help of scholarly sources, written witness and victims’ accounts, the author covered one of the most hushed up periods of the USSR history.

The second edition of The Great Terror was initiated by Teren Volyn Art Agency.

Registration for journalists and additional information at the phone (050) 201-63-61, or by email zorkina@ukraine3000.org.ua. Contact person – Kateryna Zorkina.