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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Historical experience of opposition to separatism in the North Caucasus and contemporaneity : ] Moscow: Institut Etnologii i Antropologii, 2002 Language: Russian
Price: $ 13.00
This report provides complex analysis of a certain form of separatism observed in the past in European and Eurasian parts of civilization splits. The author classifies it as a Vandei form, characterized by ethnic cleansing of some territories and by terrorist methods of gaining isolation.
In this monograph the history of Siberian provincial free-of-censorship (samizdat) press is re-created from the first post-Stalin years up to the period of "perestroika". The causes of a socio-cultural phenomenon such as `samizdat" are analyzed, the connection between texts and society`s frame of minds is detected, themes and forms of unsanctioned editions` existence are characterized.
This is the first two volumes of a multi-volume work about the victims of political repression in the Altai Krai (Siberia). Siberia is a traditional place of exile in Russia, so the list of victims includes people from all over the country.
The main topic of this book is the criminal situation in Russia and former USSR republics, criminal policy of Russian government, human right violations, prisons, legal institutions, the fate of new legal and prison reforms in Russia in 1991-1995.
[ World of prison in the eyes of political prisoners: 1940-1980 : ] Moscow: Muravei, 1998 Language: Russian
Price: $ 18.00
This book was written by V. Abramkin, who spent six years in Soviet camps as a political prisoner, and later became the leader of the Center for Prison Reform and a member of Penal Reform International, and V.
These are the materials of the fourth seminar conducted by the Russian human rights center Memorial on organizational issues of legal help to refugees and forced migrants.
This book is prepared by the non-governmental and non-commercial organization Fond Zashchity Glasnosti (Fund of Glastnost Protection). The analytical report is arranged by country, and follows the same plan (content): constitutional articles, division of power between federal and local levels; role of the courts; international agreements on human rights and their place in national practice; laws; slander; intervention into private life; insulting of officials; state secrets, election, etc.
This is an annual collection of reports of the SOVA Center on this topic. The report summarizes all the major areas of research by the Center in 2011. Appendices include statistical data and the cases which were tried by Russian courts on extremist charges.
[ Internatcionalism or Russification? : ] Montreal (Quebec): Suchastnost, 1968 Language: Ukrainian
Price: $ 16.00
Ivan Dziuba (b. 1931), a Ukrainian literary critic, social activist, dissident, Hero of Ukraine, academic of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the second Minister of Culture of Ukraine (1992—1994), Head of the Committee for the Shevchenko National Prize (1999–2001).
This is a report of the national Independent Commission on Women’s Rights. It describes the main violations of women’s rights in Russia: domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and crimes against women as a part of national traditions.
A collection of documents and materials about the trial of spiritual leaders and religious activists of the Evangelical community of Tyumen Region in December 1959. The collection also includes legislative acts on religious life and information materials of the Council of Religious Life under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.
[ History of one underground plot : ] Moscow: Prava Cheloveka, 1998 Language: Russian
Price: $ 15.00
The author of this collection of autobiographic prose was arrested in 1948 as a co-conspirator in an anti-Stalin plot. After their rehabilitation in the “thaw” of mid 1950-s, the members of the organization tried to discover the real cause of their failure.
This is materials of the conference on the fate of Russian Koreans in 1937 and the history of their deportation, their further role in the life of the Far East and Central Asia. (0.325 kg.)
This book is about the history of signing a letter of protest against the lack of transparency in the trial of the four journalist-volunteers, A.I. Ginzburg, Iu.T. Galanskov, A.A. Dobrovol’skii, and V.
This is an annual report of the SOVA Center on this topic. The report summarizes all the major areas of research by the Center in 2012. Appendices include statistical data and the cases which were tried by courts on extremist charges by region of the Russian Federation.
This teaching aid describes the roots, causes and specifics of the soviet dissent and the history of the interaction between the dissident movement and the authorities in the USSR. One of the most interesting characteristics of the movement was that it defended the soviet laws against the government that did not enforce them.
This collective work analyzes various concepts and ideas of statehood in the frame of a relatively new discipline - history of ideas. Oppositional and dissident ideas are studied as a matrix of possible transformations of statehood.
This is an annual report of the SOVA Center on this topic. The report summarizes all the major areas of research by the Center in 2013. Appendices include statistical data and the cases which were tried by courts on extremist charges by region of the Russian Federation.
Russia continues to have one of the highest rates of imprisonment in the world. This brochure is the report of the conference "Penal Reform in Former Totalitarian Countries”, which was held in the Moscow region in 1992.
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