The Invisible Battle: How Dissidents Fought for the Independence of Ukraine

OUN and Sixtiers, Ivan Dziuba and Levko Lukianenko, Vasyl Stus and Viacheslav Chornovil, protests, arrests, and camps.

In his book, Roman Klochko tells the story of the dissidents, and the history of the Ukrainian liberation movement, which lasted from the mid-1950s to the second half of the 1980s.

The heroes of the book criticized communist ideology and fought against the disenfranchisement of Ukrainians as a nation. Their weapon became the word, which painfully beat the Soviet regime in its most painful place - the monopoly on information. So the regime responded with prisons, camps, and mental hospitals, but it was never able to destroy this resistance completely. Despite all propaganda efforts and actual physical destruction of dissidents, they continued to fight and intimidate the Soviet authorities.

Roman Klochko is a translator from English, in particular, "The Gates of Europe" by Serhii Plokhy, as well as texts by Michael Crichton, John Steinbeck, and Isaac Asimov.

The author of the books "Another Melitopol Region. Essay on the History of Dissent (1953–1985)" and "Home for the Past: about museums, history, and art".