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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… Read More

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1974.. First edition; pp. 22; original printed wraps; small cut to bottom edge of front cover; some age-toning along margin; overall in very good condition.Speech celebrating the resistance to imperialism.