The Murderers of Katyn
Written by Vladimir Abarinov
Forward & Chronology by Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski

Originally published in the Soviet Union in January 1991 as the Labyrinth of Katyn, this book represents the first comprehensive attempt by a Soviet journalist to reveal the lies generated by the Soviet propaganda machine. Taking advantage of glasnost, a policy still in formation during much of his research, Abarinov cites many Soviet documents which had never before been published in any language.

Drawing on Soviet articles, as well as Soviet archives, reminiscences, documents and records of his meetings with nearly 100 eyewitnesses, Abarinov definitively points out the real murderers of Katyn: the NKVD acting on Stalin's orders. This book represents the labors of an impassioned man who felt a moral obligation to set the record straight on a most heinous crime.

This edition includes an introduction and a chronology of events surrounding the Katyn affair written by Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, American author of Poland: A Historical Atlas and Jews in Poland.

"A powerful and gripping exposure of a monstrous crime, made all the more vicious by the conspiracy over so many years to mask it, and all the more bitter by the fact that to this day not a single perpetrator has been punished for it. . . A significant historical contribution, tapping previously inaccessible Soviet archives, and a compelling moral indictment of the Soviet system (and of some prominent but misguided Westerners who propagated the Soviet version of the Katyn murders). "
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington, D.C.

VLADIMIR ABARINOV, a correspondent for the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta, was one of the first Russian writers to present to his people the truth about the Soviet mass murder of 15,000 Polish officers. After spending several years scrupulously researching the Katyn affair, Abarinov published his findings in Russia in January 1991--only nine months after Mikhail Gorbachev acknowledged Soviet responsibility for the crime.

Publishing House: Hippocrene Books, New York 1992
Hardcover book measuring 5.8" x 8.75"
396 pages, index
English Language Version

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