Zvychaina, Olena

Ukrainian novelist and co-author along with husband Mykhailo Mlakovyi, who wrote about surviving Communism during Stalin's Regime (1917-1941).

SURVIVING COMMUNISM IN UKRAINE 1917-1941:
A Memoir-Novel by Olena Zvychaina and Mykhailo Mlakovyi
Translated From the Ukrainian Voroh Narodu / An Enemy of the People by Vera Kaczmarsky

2013 0-7734-4344-4
This memoir-novel is a historical account of real life under communism in Ukraine from 1917 to the first months of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany in 1941. It reveals the barbaric treatment inflicted upon ordinary Ukrainians under Stalin’s regime. These author-survivors are real human beings who deftly depict the atrocities and horrors inflicted upon them documenting the annihilative brutality of Soviet tyranny during this era of history.

A riveting narrative, a historical novel, a story about personal dignity, humanity and integrity in the face of a brutal political system. It documents details of Soviet history and its penal system from a Ukrainian perspective under Stalin that no other source has provided since not many survived to describe the horror of it.