Testaments from Kiev: A Family in the Shadow of the Iron Curtain

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Testaments from Kiev: A Family in the Shadow of the Iron Curtain

Author(s): Leo Burstyn Wilf HurdLeo Burstyn, Wilf Hurd
Publisher: Leo Burstyn
Binding: Hardcover
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Set in Kiev in spring 1986, Testaments from Kiev follows a family's sudden confrontation with the Chernobyl disaster. When the reactor blew, radioactive dust, scarce information and official failures upended daily life across the city.

Computer engineer Leo Burstyn, his wife Tanya and their children face fear, loss and the difficult decision to leave for Calgary and later British Columbia. Interwoven are earlier generations' stories of war, famine and endurance.

What the book offers: a personal memoir grounded in historical context, examining survival, migration and the human cost of bureaucratic negligence.

  • Themes: survival, emigration, Soviet-era bureaucracy
  • Focus: family history, Chernobyl aftermath, Ukrainian experience

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