Unmailed Letters

The nation's initial steps towards independence were difficult and onerous. The freedom fighters of the Karabagh Committee carried upon their shoulders the agony and horrors of a dying Empire. Through descriptions of life in prison, its members exposed the real face of the KGB and the ""loving care"" of the party authorities...

Hambardzum Galstyan's Unmailed Letters is a solid account of this struggle - it is not only a narrative of great literary merit, but, because of its authentic content, it is also an invaluable espression of historical truth, and a timely document.

These are the memoirs of a Soviet Armenian dissident-activist, the challenge to the Moscow authorities (1988), the independence of Soviet Armenia (1988) - and the independence struggle of Nagorno Karabagh (1988- present). These memoirs were translated from Armenian, with an intro and annotation by Agop Hacikyan.