1. “Socialists”
On 6 April 1982, the following were arrested in Moscow: Boris Yulevich KAGARLITSKY (b. 1958), Andrei Vasilevich FADIN (b. 1953), Pavel Mikhailovich KUDYKIN (b. 1953), Yury Leonidovich KHAVKIN (b. 1949) and Vladimir Nikolayevich CHERNETSKY (b. 1950).
They were all charged under Article 70 (RSFSR Criminal Code).
The same day in connection with this case searches were carried out in Moscow at the homes of Irena Beilis, Konstantin Baranovsky, Ilya Sultanov, Pyotr Volkov, Alexei Zverev, Olga Ivanova, Olga Isakova and Dmitry Mongait.
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On 21 April 1982 in connection with this case Alexander Yurevich SHILKOV (b. 1952), living in Petrozavodsk, was arrested. He was charged under Article 70 (RSFSR Criminal Code).
On 8 June 1982 Mikhail Germanovich RIVKIN (b. 1954), living in Moscow, was arrested.
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Those arrested [1] are charged with publishing the “socialist” samizdat journals [2]: Left Turn, Variations and Socialism and the Future.
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2. “Religious Samizdat” people
On 6 April 1982 the following were arrested in Moscow: Sergei Alexandrovich BUDAROV (b. 1946), Victor Vasilevich BURDYUG (b. 1946), Nikolai Vladimirovich BLOKHIN (b. 1945) and Alexander Konstantinovich SIDOROV-ROZANOV (b. 1946).
At the search at Budarov’s house a large quantity of printed matter (the record lists 131 items) was confiscated, mostly of a religious nature, many of them bound photocopies. After the search Budarov was arrested. He was charged under Article 162 (RSFSR Criminal Code: “engaging in forbidden trade”). On 14 April another search was carried out at Budarov’s flat at which several religious books were confiscated as well as a photocopy of The Technology of Power by Avtorkhanov.
From Burdyug religious literature was confiscated. He wasn’t present at the search. He had gone out before the search and was arrested somewhere away from home.
From Sidorov many photocopies of religious literature were confiscated.
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In connection with this case searches were carried out in Moscow on 6 April 1982 at the homes of Sergei Bychkov, Grigory Zaichenko, Natalya Kapitanov, Valery Izyumov, Natalya Maximova, Boris and Galina Khokhlov, Nikolai Chestnykh, Yury Goryainov (at his dacha) and Vladimir Kokorin.
Those arrested have been charged with reproducing religious literature.
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NOTES
- With two exceptions, those arrested in the “Socialists” case, were pardoned and released in February 1983.
— Alexander Shilkov (Petrozavodsk) was sentenced in November 1982 under Article 190-1 (RSFSR Criminal Code) to three years imprisonment and three years exile.
— In July 1983 Mikhail Rivkin (Moscow) was given the maximum sentence under Article 70: seven years imprisonment, followed by five years exile.
The feature photo shows Rabbi Rivkin who today lives and works in Israel.
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More information about the “Case of the Socialists” can be found in entries for 1982 and 1983 in “Vesti iz SSSR”, the fortnightly human rights bulletin compiled and issued by Kronid Lyubarsky. Vesti was released in Munich between November 1978 and December 1991 (in Russian).
↩︎ - The socialist samizdat journals were described in Vesti: (1) Left Turn (Vesti 1981, 23/24-3), (2) Variations (Vesti [E] 1983, 21-1) and (3) Socialism and the Future (Vesti 1982, 10-1).
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