Author: Kavyl', Mikhas
Title: Pad Zorami Belymi. Vershy [Beneath the White Stars. Poems] Signed/Inscribed by Author
Description: New York: Vydavetstva Zluchanaha Belaruska-Ameerykanskaha Dapamahovaha Kamitetu u Niu Iorku, 1954. Softcover. First edition; 4 1/2 x 6 1/4; pp. 72; beige wraps illustrated in blue by artist M. Kruglovich; a few small worn spots to wraps; text clean; portrait fronts; very good. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. The author, Mikhas Kavyl, was one of the victims of the Case of the Union of Liberation of Belarus - a tragic and absurd political case by the GPU (Secret Police) during the wave of Soviet repressions in Belarus in 1929 - 1931. The culprits - more than a hundred intellectuals, writers, historians, and artists purportedly members of the counterrevolutionary organization Union of Liberation of Belarus - were accused of criminal activities, anti-Soviet propaganda, and attempts to separate Belarus from the Soviet Union. All arrested, but for 18 people, were sentenced to exile, sent to the gulags, or executed. Kavyl would eventually be deported and would make his way to New York. "Beneath the White Stars" was his first and only collection of poems. Ill.: 0. 2.

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