<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> The Soviet Human Rights Movement: A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. (1) DOCUMENTS: 1 (a) General. 1 (b) Trials, demonstrations, persecution. 1 (c) National and religious movements. (2) BOOKS BY SOVIET PARTICIPANTS: 2 (a) problems of Soviet society. 2 (b) Belles-lettres. (3) BOOKS BY WESTERN SCHOLARS AND OBSERVERS * (1) DOCUMENTS 1 … Continue reading Western Publications, ’72 (23.11)
-- 01. USING THIS WEBSITE. 1.1 : Abbreviations & Definitions. 1.2 : Guided Search. -- 02. CCE CONTENTS. -- 03. NAME INDEX. -- 04. MAPS. 02. CONTENTS. In Alphabetical Order; Years of Publication (Total reports). See November 2024 "Update", for a brief analysis and explanation of this and the other sections. * [1] Abuse of … Continue reading 02. CCE CONTENTS (’68-’82)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> On the wave of ‘unofficial variety’ of the 1960s a club for unofficial singing was organized in Moscow in 1967 from a group of authors, singers and musicians (who often combined these roles). Now, the Unofficial Song Club [USC] numbers about 200 group members (song clubs in higher educational … Continue reading ‘Unofficial’ Entertainment, Aug ’76 (41.13)
<<No 41 : 3 August 1976>> RELIGION IN THE USSR 2-1. Lecture by Furov (USSR Council for Religious Affairs). 2-2. A Letter by Lev Regelson & Gleb Yakunin. 2-3. A new Way of Fighting Religion (Argentov & Ogorodnikov). 2-4. Evangelical Christians and Baptists. 2-5. Pentecostals. * Evangelical Christians & Baptists. * FOUR SECTIONS At the … Continue reading Baptists, Aug ’76 (41.2-4)
<<No 34 : 31 December 1974>> Documents circulating in Georgian samizdat accuse the present hierarchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church, together with leading officials of the Georgian SSR's government and its KGB, of criminal activities [1]. * SEVEN ITEMS [1] KORIDZE'S REPORT. The most important such document is "A Report on Crimes Committed in the … Continue reading Samizdat & the Georgian Patriarchate, ’74 (34.13)
<< No 44 : 16 March 1977 >> 17-1: (1) Vladimir Prison. (2) Mordovia. (3) Perm. (4) Other Camps; 17-2: (5) Letters and Statements of Political Prisoners; 17-3: (6) In Defence of Political Prisoners; (7) Releases; 17-4: (8) Political Prisoners in Vladimir Prison. * FOUR SECTIONS: 1. Vladimir Prison. Senior prison officials: commandant, Lieutenant-Colonel Ugodin; … Continue reading Prisons & Camps, Mar ’77 (44.17-1)
<< No 30 : 31 December 1973 >> EIGHT ITEMS: [1] Investigation of the Superfin Case. As previously reported (CCE 29.4), Gabriel Gavrilovich SUPERFIN was arrested on 3 July 1973, his home was searched and the following items confiscated: notebooks, books in foreign languages including detective stories by Agatha Christie and a literary work to … Continue reading Searches, Arrests, Interrogations: Dec ’73 (30.7)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> SEVEN ITEMS * EDUCATION (1-3) [1] Volkov and Golubev, students at the Latvian State University (physics and maths faculty) listened to and recorded on tape some excerpts from Solzhenitsyn’s book Gulag Archipelago, broadcast by a foreign radio station. They then reproduced the recording for their colleagues. They have been … Continue reading Extrajudicial persecution, Jul ’74 (32.18)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> On 20 April 1978, 26 days before the completion of his term of exile, Alexander A. BOLONKIN was arrested. In 1976 he had completed four years in the camps under Article 70, pt. 1 (RSFSR Criminal Code; see CCE 30.4). * BEATINGS On 6 May 1978, Bolonkin was taken … Continue reading Bolonkin Trial [2], Aug ’78 (51.7)
<<No. 50 : November 1978>> 3-1. TRIAL (Kaluga) 3-2. Ginzburg's APPEAL * From 10 to 13 July the Kaluga Region Court heard the case of Alexander GINZBURG, charged under Article 70 pt. 2 (RSFSR Criminal Code) [1]. The Court was made up of Presiding Judge A.I. Sidorkov with People’s Assessors S.M. Brandt and N.P. Parshina. … Continue reading Ginzburg Trial [3], Jul ’78 (50.3-1)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> AN ARREST AND A TRIAL: NAZARYAN & SHAGEN ARUTYUNYAN. The morning of 22 December 1977 saw the start of a major operation against the Armenian Helsinki Group (CCE 46.15 [13]). Group members Robert Nazaryan, a deacon of the Armenian Apostolic church, and Shagen Arutyunyan, a manual worker, were arrested … Continue reading Suppress Helsinki Groups: Armenia, ’77-78 (48.6)
<<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> The Russian Relief Fund for Political Prisoners (CCE 44.3) here gives the names of political prisoners and exiles known to it in mid-August 1977. [N.B. These 275 names EXCLUDE those in psychiatric hospitals and all but five religious prisoners. For more details on the men and women listed here … Continue reading Political Prisoners, Aug ’77 (46.23-1)
«Vesti iz SSSR» [R], 1986 (22/23-1; 15 December). On 8 December 1986 Anatoly Tikhonovich MARCHENKO (b. 1938), a political prisoner for many years, died in the maximum-security Chistopol Prison (Tatarstan). * HUNGER STRIKE. For several months prior to his death, Marchenko had been on hunger strike, which he began on 8 August 1986 (1986: 17-7). … Continue reading The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
<<No 44 : 16 March 1977>> On 8 January 1977, an explosion took place in the Moscow Metro (Underground; feature photo). On 10 January, the news agency TASS reported that the explosion was not of great force, “medical help was given to those suffering injury, and an investigation is being conducted”. Later, at meetings of … Continue reading Moscow Explosions, Jan ’77 (44.16)
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> FOUR TRIALS: ODESSA. DUSHANBE. SVERDLOVSK. KHARKOV. [1] ODESSA south Ukraine A trial, held off and on from 4 to 19 May, has now come to an end. The defendants, Oleksa Prityka, Oleksa Riznykiv and Nina Strokata (CCE 23.7 [4]; feature photo) were charged under Article 62 (UkSSR … Continue reading Political Trials, Spring ’72 (25.1)
<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> FIVE ENTRIES [1] JUOZAS ZDEBSKIS The trial of the priest Juozas Zdebskis [1], arrested on 26 August in Prienai, took place on 11 November 1971 in the people’s court of the Kaunas district. Zdebskis had been brutally beaten while in police custody. Until the trial he was held in … Continue reading Believers Persecuted (Lithuania), Jan ’72 (23.8)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> On 9 October 1975, the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament awarded the annual Nobel Prize for "Activities contributing to Peace" to Andrei Dmitrievich SAKHAROV (aged 54). * [1] Sakharov heard that he had won the Peace Prize from foreign journalists on the evening of 9 October. "I hope … Continue reading Sakharov’s Friends & Enemies, Dec ’75 (38.1)
<< No 40 : 20 May 1976 >> BIOGRAPHY. Mustafa Dzhemilev (Abduldzhemil) was born in November 1943. During the deportation of May 1944, his family – his mother and her four children (his father was at the front) – ended up in Uzbekistan. In 1966 Mustafa was expelled from the 3rd-year course of the Tashkent … Continue reading M. Dzhemilev Trial [2], Apr ’76 (40.3)
<< No. 43 : 31 December 1976 >> Days of Protest in the USSR. THREE DATES: 30 OCTOBER, 5 & 10 DECEMBER * [1] 30 OCTOBER 1976: POLITICAL PRISONERS' DAY * In 1976 Political Prisoners’ Day was observed for the third time (cf. CCE 33.1). In camps and prisons the traditional hunger-strikes took place on … Continue reading Traditional Days of Protest, ’76 (43.2)
<<No 20 : 2 July 1971>> On 21 June 1971 the Moldavian SSR Supreme Court, with D. D. Bordyuzha, member of the Supreme Court, presiding, began hearing the case [1] against nine co-defendants, charged under the following Articles: 17-61, 67 & 69 and 119 (Moldavian SSR Criminal Code = Articles 64, 70 & 72 and … Continue reading Trial of the Nine: Kishinyov, Jun ’71 (20.3)
<<No 14 : 30 June 1970>> As already reported (CCE 12.4), a group of six people has been arrested and convicted in Ryazan. The investigation was carried out by the KGB; more than 100 witnesses were summoned. The case was heard in the Ryazan Region Court from 10 to 19 February 1970. Five of those … Continue reading Details of Ryazan Trial, Feb ’70 (14.7)
«No 13 : 30 April 1970 » The trial of Valeria Novodvorskaya [feature photo] took place on 16 March 1970 in the Moscow Region Court. A 2nd-year student at the Institute of Foreign Languages (CCE 11.7), Novodvorskaya was charged under Article 70 (RSFSR Criminal Code: "Anti-Soviet Agitation & Propaganda"). * She was accused of preparing … Continue reading Novodvorskaya Trial, March ’70 (13.2)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» Writers Union expels Solzhenitsyn. On 4 November 1969 the great Russian writer Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was expelled from the Writers' Union by its Ryazan branch (RSFSR Writers Union). * Of the seven members of the Ryazan branch, six attended the meeting: Vasily Matushkin (Ryazan); Sergei Baranov (Ryazan, who chaired … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn Expelled, Nov ’69 (11.1)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 13 February 1974, after a prolonged and large-scale persecution campaign in the press, Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was deported from the Soviet Union. The immediate cause was the publication of his GULag Archipelago by the YMCA Press [1]. Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org (1918-2008) * "GULAG ARCHIPELAGO". The circumstances surrounding the … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn Deported, Feb ’74 (32.1)
«No 6 : 28 February 1969» NINE ITEMS: [1] In Kiev Nazarenko and two other employees of the hydro-electric station, Kondryukov and Karpenko, were recently tried on a charge of engaging in anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation. The defendants distributed through the post leaflets protesting against the Russification of the Ukraine and describing the Shevchenko celebrations … Continue reading News in Brief, Feb ’69 (6.9)
«No 5 : 31 December 1968» Samizdat Survey Samizdat is a specific medium for exercising freedom of expression in our country. During the last few years samizdat has evolved from a predominant concern with poetry and fiction towards an ever greater emphasis on journalistic and documentary writing. This is particularly true of 1968. * INTRODUCTION. … Continue reading Samizdat, Dec ’68 (5.1)
“The Chronicle itself goes on, courageously and mysteriously, against all probability” (The Times, London). -- 01. USING THIS WEBSITE. 1.1: Abbreviations & Definitions. 1.2: Guided Search. -- 02. CCE CONTENTS. -- 03. NAME INDEX. -- 04. MAPS. * A CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS. Nos 1-58, 60-65. 64 translated and annotated (English) issues of A Chronicle … Continue reading USING THIS WEBSITE
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