Fedynskyj, Jurij

[SIGNED] Sovietization of an Occupied Area Through the Medium of the Courts (Northern Bukovina)

The American Slavic and East European Review, 1953. Item #1589

Reprinted from The American Slavic and East European Review, Vol. XII, No. 1 (February 1953). Pages 44–56; 24 cm. Offprint in original printed wrappers. Text in English.

Wrappers and margins heavily toned with moisture staining and tide marks affecting both covers and interior leaves; some creasing to corners.

Signed offprint of the scholarly article by Jurij Fedynskyj, examining the process of Soviet political and legal consolidation in Northern Bukovina following its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940. The study analyzes how the Soviet authorities used the judicial system as an instrument of political transformation, focusing on civil cases that originated under the Romanian legal framework but were later reviewed by the Soviet Regional Court of Chernivtsi before May 1941.

Signed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated June 1955, the present copy also bears an authorial inscription addressed to Dr. D. Doroshenko, a prominent historian of Ukraine, further highlighting the intellectual networks linking émigré scholars and Western academia in the mid-twentieth century.

Price: $100.00