Author: Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate
Title: Humans Used As Guinea Pigs in the Soviet Union. Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate. Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1976. First edition; 5 1/2" x 9"; pp. ii-iii, [1], 1-44, i-iv including text to front and back cover; original staple-bound printed wraps; small puncture to lower margin; slight crease to lower corner of back cover; minor wear; very good to near fine. The document contains the testimonies, in front of the US Senate, of 3 former Russian citizens. The first one - Luba Markish was used as a lab rat in testing a highly toxic gas while she was a student at Moscow University. She was severely burned and disabled in what the university deemed an "accident." When she tried to write a book about her experience and testify at a Copenhagen hearing for violation of human rights her family was threatened with death by the Russian Government. The second testimony is that of Prof. David Azbel, a Ukrainian-born naturalized American citizen, who was arrested during the Stalin purges in the 1935 and spent 16 years in the camps of the Gulag Archipelago. The third testimony is the one of Vera Halip - the mother of Luba Markish. The only copy in the trade. Ill.: 0. 2.

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