1970 (12-17e)

No 12 : 28 February 1970

THE MOVEMENT IN DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES

  1. Grigorenko’s prison diary
  2. The trial of Pyotr Grigorenko
  3. The trial of Ilya Gabai and Mustafa Dzhemilev
  4. Political trials in the towns of the Soviet Union
  5. News from the political prison camps in Mordovia
  6. Letters from Soviet Jews
  7. The expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Writers’ Union
    (Additional material)
  8. Foreigners in defence of Soviet political prisoners
  9. News in brief
  10. Samizdat update
  11. Additions and corrections

[COMMENTARY No 12]

No 13 : 30 April 1970

  1. Moscow – the trial of Vladimir Gershuni
  2. Moscow – the trial of Valeria Novodvorskaya
  3. Gorky – a political trial under Articles 70 and 72 of the RSFSR Criminal Code
  4. Kharkov – the trial of Nedobora and Ponomaryov
  5. Kharkov – the trial of Arkady Levin
  6. Extra-judicial acts linked to the Kharkov trials
  7. Once more about Svyatoslav Karavansky
  8. The trial of Ivan Yakhimovich and other trials
  9. Samizdat update
  10. News in brief

[Commentary No 13]

No 14 : 30 June 1970

  1. The arrest of Andrei Amalrik.
  2. The fate of Pyotr Grigorenko.
  3. The imprisonment of Zhores Medvedev in a psychiatric hospital.
  4. Statements by Vladimir Bukovsky.
  5. The Soviet press on the persecution of dissidents in the Soviet Union.
  6. Portraits of Stalin under guard.
  7. Details of the Ryazan trial.
  8. Religious persecution.
  9. From the history of Soviet censorship.
  10. Extra-judicial persecution.
  11. News in brief.
  12. Samizdat update.
  13. Corrections and additions.

[Commentary No 14]

No 15 : 31 August 1970

  1. The trial of Natalya Gorbanevskaya
  2. The trial of Olga Ioffe
  3. The arrest of Revolt Pimenov
  4. Political trials in towns across the Soviet Union
  5. The case of Anatoly Levitin-Krasnov
  6. Searches and arrests among Jews wishing to leave for Israel
  7. In the camps of Mordovia
  8. Inmates of women’s political Camp ZhKh 385/3 (Mordovia)
  9. Extrajudicial persecution
  10. News in brief
  11. Samizdat update
  12. Corrections and Additions

[Commentary No 15]

No 16 : 31 October 1970

  1. The friends and enemies of Solzhenitsyn
  2. The trial of Pimenov and Boris Vail
  3. In defence of Andrei Amalrik
  4. Trials in Yerevan
  5. Trials of recent years
  6. Religious persecution
  7. Following up reports in the press
  8. Extra-judicial persecution
  9. On the fate of P.G. Grigorenko
  10. News in Brief
  11. Samizdat update
  12. Obituary [Yu. G. Oksman]
  13. Corrections and Additions

[Commentary No 16]

No 17 : 31 December 1970

  1. The trial of Amalrik and Ubozhko (Andrei Amalrik’s farewell address)
  2. The trial of Valentin Moroz
  3. Solzhenitsyn’s letters to the Nobel Foundation
  4. The Committee for Human Rights in the USSR
  5. Public statements regarding the trial of Pimenov, Vail and Zinovieva
  6. The Leningrad trial of the “hi-jackers” (Public statements after the trial)
  7. Trials of recent years: the case of the UNF [Ukrainian National Front]
  8. Persecution of Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel
  9. Rigerman, American citizenship and the Soviet police
  10. The fate of Fritz Mender
  11. Political prisoners in the Mordovian camps
  12. News in brief
  13. Samizdat update
  14. Those arrested in 1969 and tried in 1970 (Supplement to No 17, pt 1)
  15. Those arrested in 1970 (Supplement to No 17, pt 2)

[Commentary No 17]

ТHIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION