<< No 43 : 31 December 1976 >>

The original Russian texts of CCEs 43-5, of which this book is a translation, appeared as three booklets without annotations, Khronika tekushchikh sobytii Khronika Press, New York, 1977.

Earlier issues of the Chronicle are available in English from two main sources. Nos. 16-42 and 46-50 have been published by Amnesty International Publications with annotations and names indexes, all issues except numbers 12-16 still being in print [but see this website]. Numbers 1-11 appeared in full, with annotations and 76 photographs, in Peter Reddaway’s Uncensored Russia: the Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union, London and New York, 1972.

Future Issues of A Chronicle of Current Events will be published in English by Amnesty International Publications as they become available.

Other books and periodicals in which readers can find more details about many of the people mentioned in the Chronicle are listed in the annotated bibliographies in the Amnesty International editions of CCE 22, CCE 23 & CCE 27, and also appear in the notes in each volume.

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Many texts referred to briefly in the Chronicle have appeared in full in the quarterly A Chronicle of Human Rights in the USSR, Khronika Press: New York (separate Russian & English editions), and (documents of Helsinki groups) in the volumes listed in endnote 2 of this book. The monthly The Samizdat Bulletin, San Mateo, California (USA), is also a useful source; as are, for Ukrainian Helsinki Group documents, several booklets published in English by Smoloskyp Publishers, Ellicott City, Maryland (USA).

In French the best source of samizdat texts is the monthly Cahiers du Samizdat, Brussels, Belgium; in German, the bimonthly Menschenrechte-Schicksale-Dokumente, Gesellschaft fur Menschenrechte, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; in Italian, the bimonthly Russia Christiana, Milan; and in Dutch, the bimonthly Rusland Bulletin, Amsterdam.

For many religious texts, see the quarterly Religion in Communist Lands, Keston College, England. For Jewish texts see the weekly Jews in the USSR, London, England.

For Lithuanian texts see translated issues of The Chronicle of the Lithuanian Catholic Church (published as booklets), New York (USA); also see translations of this and other Lithuanian samizdat in the bimonthly ELTA magazine, New York (USA).

See a later BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE of this kind (CCE 56.31) “Russian, Italian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, etc.” for the most complete summary