{"product_id":"babi-yar-a-document-in-the-form-of-a-novel","title":"Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel","description":"When I submitted the original manuscript of this book to the editor of the magazine \u003ci\u003eYunost\u003c\/i\u003e in Moscow, it was returned to me immediately with the advice not to show it to anybody else until I had removed all the \"anti-Soviet stuff\" from it. I removed important sections from the chapters about the Kreshchatik, the destruction of the monastery, the disaster of 1961 and so forth, and submitted a milder version in which the sense of the book, though discernible, was concealed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe manuscript passed through many departments, up to and including the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, a nd while it was being prepared for publication the multistage censorship cut out another quarter of the text: the whole sense of the book was turned upside down. It was in that form that \u003ci\u003eBabi Yar\u003c\/i\u003e was published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe same fate befell all my earlier works, and the works of other writers too. In the Soviet Union a writer is constantly faced with a choice: either he will not be published at all or he can publish what the censorship will permit . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1969 I escaped from the Soviet Union, taking with me the films to which I had transferred my manuscripts, including the complete text of \u003ci\u003eBabi Yar\u003c\/i\u003e. I am now presenting it as the first of my books to appear without being submitted to any political censorship, and I wish the present text of \u003ci\u003eBabi Yar\u003c\/i\u003e to be regarded as the only true one.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985483108432,"sku":"9780374528171B","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/babi-yar-a-document-in-the-form-of-a-novel","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}