<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>>

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

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(1) DOCUMENTS

1 (a): General

Anon, ed., La Russie Contestataire: Documents de l’Opposition Soviétique, Fayard (Paris), 1971.

• A rather eclectic but very useful collection.

Anon, ed., Samizdat 1, Seuil (Paris), 1969.

• A big collection, useful despite its Trotskyist bias.

A. Brumberg, ed., In Quest of Justice: Protest and Dissent in the Soviet Union Today, Praeger (New York) and Pall Mall (London), 1970,

• A wide-ranging collection covering the period 1966 to spring 1969, with detailed commentaries.

M. Ferzetti, ed., La Voz de las Valientes: La Disensión en Rusia, Editorial Intercontinental, 1971.

• A useful collection coming up to 1970.

C. Gerstenmaier, Die Stimme der Stummen: Die demokratische Bewegung in der Sowjetunion, Seewald (Stuttgart), 1971,

• An excellent collection with extensive commentary.

Il Tempo, Rome, 9, 11, 14, 15, 18 January 1972

• A wide-ranging collection of recent documents.

P. Reddaway, ed., Uncensored Russia: The Human Rights Movement in the Soviet Union. Cape (London) and McGraw-Hill (New York), 1972.

• The heavily annotated text of the first 11 Chronicles, arranged according to theme. 76 photographs, introduction by Julius Telesin.

M. Slavinsky, ed., La Presse Clandestine en URSS, 1960-1970, Nouvelles Editions Latines (Paris), 1970.

• A useful and wide-ranging collection.

A. von Tarnow, ed., Demokratie in der Illegalität: Die “Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse”, Seewald (Stuttgart), 1971.

• Selections from the Chronicle.

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1 (b): Trials, Demonstrations, Persecution, etc.

Anon, ed., For Human Rights, Possev (Frankfurt), 1969.

• Texts (in Russian and English) of the first Action Group appeal to the UN and of letters by P. Yakir and L. Petrovsky.

Wladimir Bukowski, ed. Opposition. Eine neue Geisteskrankheit in der Sowjetunion? Carl Hanser Verlag, 1972.

• Documents on the internment of dissenters in prison-hospitals.

V. Boukovsky. Une nouvelle maladie mentale en URSS: L’opposition, Seuil (Paris), 1971.

• French version of above item.

Ginsburg, Weissbuch in Sachen Sinjawskij-Daniel, Possev (Frankfurt), 1967.

• Ginzburg’s “White Book” on the Sinyavsky-Daniel case, also published in French (La Table Ronde) and Italian (Jaca Book).

N. Gorbanevskaya, Red Square at Noon, Deutsch (London) and Holt, Rinehart (New York), 1972.

• Documents on the demonstration of 25 August 1968, in Red Square and the ensuing trial of P. Litvinov and Larissa Daniel.

D. Weissbort, ed., Selected Poems by Natalya Gorbanevskaya with transcript of her Trial and papers relating to her Detention in a Prison Psychiatric Hospital, Carcanet (Oxford), 1972.

• An exact complement to the previous book.

M. Hayward and L. Labedz, eds., On Trial, Collins-Harvill (London) and Harper & Row (New York), 1967.

• The record of the trial of Sinyavsky and Daniel with associated documents. Closely parallels the White Book compiled in the USSR by A. Ginzburg and is an important study if the case which was critical for the development of the human rights movement.

L. Labedz, ed., Solzhenitsyn, Penguin (London) 1972, and Harper & Row (New York), 1971.

• A documentary record of the tribulations and triumphs of Solzhenitsyn. Contains many important letters and statements by Solzhenitsyn.

P. Litvinov, ed., The Demonstration in Pushkin Square, Collins-Harvill (London) and Gambit (Boston), 1969.

• A record of the trials of Khaustov, and of Bukovsky, Delone and Kushev.

P. Litvinov, ed., The Trial of the Four, Longman (London) and Viking (New York), due in summer 1972.

• A very extensive collection of documents on the case of Ginzburg, Galanskov, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova.

R. and Zh. Medvedev, A Question of Madness, Macmillan (London) and Knopf (New York), 1971.

• The dramatic record of Zhores Medvedev’s involuntary confinement in a psychiatric hospital in June 1970.

Survey (London), Nos. 77 (1970) and 81 (1971).

• Collections of documents on dissent and the treatment of dissenters in prison-hospitals.

The Bell (Birmingham), No. 33-34, August 1971.

• A collection of documents on the abuse of Soviet psychiatry.

K. van het Reve, ed., Letters and Telegrams to Pavel M. Litvinov, December 1967-May 1968, Reidel (Holland) 1969.

• Friendly and hostile letters, provoked mostly by Litvinov’s appeal (with Larissa Daniel) to public opinion.

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1 (c): National and Religious Movements

M. Bourdeaux, Patriarch and Prophets, Macmillan (London) and Praeger (New York), 1969.

• An important collection of documents on dissent within the Russian Orthodox Church covering the period from 1960 to 1968.

M. Bourdeaux, Religious Ferment in Russia: Protestant Opposition to Soviet Religious Policy, Macmillan (London & New York), 1968.

• Based on Baptist documents, covers period 1960-1967.

M. Bourdeaux, Faith on Trial in Russia, Hodder (London) and Harper & Row (New York), 1971.

• An updated and more “popular’’ version of the previous item.

M. Browne, ed., Ferment in the Ukraine, Macmillan (London) and Praeger (New York), 1971.

• An impressive collection of Ukrainian documents (1964-1969) with a massive bibliography.

Chiesa e Società 4, URSS: Dibattito nella Communita Cristiana, Jaca Book (Milan), 1968.

• A very useful collection of Orthodox and Baptist materials, with commentaries.

V. Chornovil, The Chornovil Papers, McGraw-Hill (Toronto), 1968.

• Chornovil’s 1965 petition and other documents (collectively entitled The Misfortune of Intellect) concerning the Ukrainian struggle to preserve national identity.

Richard Cohen, ed., Let My People Go, Popular Library (New York), 1971.

• Contains records of the Leningrad and Riga trials of 1970-1971.

M. Decter, ed., A Hero of Our Times: The Trial and Fate of Boris Kochubievsky, Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry (New York), 1970.

• Documents on a Kiev Zionist.

M. Decter, ed., Redemption! American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry (New York), 1970.

• Jewish letters and petitions from the Soviet Union.

Exodus, Nos. 2 and 4, published separately by the Institute of Jewish Affairs (London), 1971.

• A Zionist samizdat journal, mostly made up of documents.

Rosemary Harris and Xenia Howard-Johnston, eds. Christian Appeals from Russia, Hodder (London), 1969.

• Baptist appeals of 1966-1968.

News Bulletin on Soviet Jewry (Tel-Aviv, Israel), twice monthly.

• Documents and detailed information published in a remarkably up-to-the-minute way.

G. Shimanov, Notes from the Red House, Monastery Press (Montreal, Canada), 1971.

• Remarkable account by a young Orthodox layman of his internment in a mental hospital.

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(2) BOOKS BY SOVIET PARTICIPANTS IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT

(Most of these books have appeared in other languages as well as English.)

2 (a): Problems of Soviet Society

A. Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984. Harper & Row (New York), 1971, and Allen Lane, The Penguin Press (London), 1970.

• A stimulating analysis of the development and prospects of the democratic movement in the USSR. The second section of the essay, discussing a possible conflict with China, is less convincing. Additional letters by Amalrik are appended.

A. Amalrik. Involuntary Journey to Siberia, Collins-Harvill (London) and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York), 1970.

• The first trial of Amalrik and a remarkable account of his life as an exile on a collective farm in 1965-1966.

I. Dzyuba, Internationalism or Russification? Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London), 2nd revised edition, 1970.

• An historical analysis of soviet policy with respect to the Ukraine, and a declaration that national rights are inseparably connected with general human rights.

P. Grigorenko, Staline et la deuxième guerre Mondiale, L’Herne (Paris), 1969.

• An anti-Stalin contribution to the historians debate on the blame Stalin should bear for the Soviet collapse in 1941.

P. Grigorenko, Der sowjetische Zasummenbruch 1941, Possev (Frankfurt), 1969.

• A better edited version of the above item.

A Marchenko, My Testimony, Penguin (Harmondsworth) and Dutton (New York), 1971.

• A devastating report on conditions in Soviet labour camps today, plus additional appeals and material on Marchenko.

N. Mandelstam, Hope against Hope, Atheneum (New York), 1970, and Collins-Harvill (London), 1971.

• An account by the widow of a poet who died in ‘the purges’ [¹] of the demoralization of the intelligentsia under Stalin. Helps to uncover the spiritual and other links of the democratic movement with the older intelligentsia.

R. Medvedev, Let History Judge, Knopf (New York). 1971 and Macmillan (London), 1972.

• A history of the Stalin era by a Soviet historian: anti-Stalin, pro-Lenin.

Zh. Medvedev, The Medvedev Papers, Macmillan (London), 1971.

• A meticulous and revealing examination of Soviet practices to control and restrict the international contacts of Soviet scholars and other citizens. In addition, a detailed study of postal censorship. Also, fascinating glimpses of many other aspects of Soviet life.

Zh. Medvedev, The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko, Doubleday (New York) 1971.

• A history of the Lysenko affair by an able Soviet biologist. Perhaps overly detailed discussion of genetics for the general reader, but contains many insights into Soviet society.

A. Sakharov, Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom, Deutsch (London) and Norton (New York), 1969.

• Sakharov’s important essay on problems of Soviet society and East-West relations.

A. Sinyavsky (Tertz), On Socialist Realism, Pantheon (New York), 1960.

• A critical analysis of Soviet literary doctrine and, by implication, Soviet society.

A. Yesenin-Volpin, A Leaf of Spring, Praeger (New York) and Thames & Hudson (London), 1961.

• Contains poems and a “Free Philosophical Treatise”, which in the rather abstract terms of a logician is an analysis of the foundations of Soviet society.

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2 (b): Belles-Lettres

K. Bosley, ed., Russia’s Other Poets, Longman (London) and Praeger (New York), 1968.

• Samizdat poems of 1961-1966.

Yu, Daniel (Arzhak), This is Moscow Speaking, Dutton (New York) and Collins-Harvill (London), 1969.

• Four stories written before 1965 that contain interesting insights into Soviet society. Daniel served five years in prison camps for writing these stories and sending them to the West.

V. Grossman, Forever Flowing, Harper & Row (New York), due in 1972.

• Within the rather rough framework of a novel, a consideration of some of the main issues of Soviet history and society written by this major Soviet novelist before his death in 1964.

B. Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, Collins (London) and Pantheon (New York), 1958.

• The novel that first gained Western attention for unofficial Russia. Still banned but read with interest in the USSR.

J. F. Reyel, Littérature Russe Clandestine, Editions Albin Michel (Paris), 1971.

• A useful collection of samizdat prose writings of the 1960s.

M. Scammell, ed., Russia’s Other Writers, Longman (London), 1970, and Praeger (New York), 1971.

• Some prose works that have circulated in samizdat. Maximov’s “House in the Clouds” and Velsky’s “My Apologia” are noteworthy.

A.Sinyavsky (Tertz), The Trial Begins (1960), Fantastic Stories (1963) and The Makepeace Experiment {1965), Collins-Harvill (London) and Pantheon (New York)

• Imaginative and socially relevant stories by a gifted critic and writer.

A. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, 1963; For the Good of the Cause, 1964; Cancer Ward, 1968; The First Circle, 1969; August 1914, due in 1972.

• The works of this major literary figure have appeared in many editions. Possibly Cancer Ward is most relevant to the goals of the human rights movement. In addition to Labedz’s cited collection of documents, Soljenitsyne, L’Herne (Paris), 1971, contains interesting material on Solzhenitsyn.

V. Tarsis. Ward 7, Collins-Harvill (London) and Dutton (New York).

• A thinly fictionalized account of the author’s involuntary confinement in 1962-1963 in a Moscow lunatic asylum. He took part in the formation of the literary opposition and then emigrated to the West.

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(3) BOOKS BY WESTERN SCHOLARS AND OBSERVERS

C. Mee, The internment of Soviet Dissenters in Mental Hospitals, John Arliss (Cambridge), 1971.

• A competent, 20-page analysis of this form of repression.

R. Conquest, The Nation Killers, Macmillan (London), 1970.

• A study of the deportation and current status of eight Soviet national groups, notably the Crimean Tatars and Meskhetians, whose causes have been taken up by the human rights movement.

R. Conquest, The Pasternak Affair. Collins (London) and Lippincott (Philadelphia), 1962.

• The story (with some documents) of the controversy surrounding the publication of Doctor Zhivago and the award of the [1958] Nobel Prize.

R. Gaucher, Opposition in the USSR 1917-1967, Funk & Wagnalls (New York), 1969.

• A survey with about 100 pages devoted to events since the death of Stalin.

Human Rights in the USSR, Journal of the International Committee on the Situation of Minorities and on Human Rights in the USSR (Brussels).

• An interesting monthly, begun in 1972.

Jews in the USSR, Latest Information. Board of Deputies of British Jews (London).

• A new weekly, begun in 1972.

Jews in Eastern Europe (London).

• A committed but useful journal on Jewish developments,

J. Kolasky. Two Years in Soviet Ukraine, P. Martin (Toronto), 1970.

• A first-hand account of the struggle for Ukrainian rights, as witnessed in 1963-1965.

Ann Sheehy, The Crimean Tatars and the Volga Germans, Minority Rights Group (London), 1971.

• A solid but concise account of the Crimean Tatars 14-year campaign to return home. Sketchier on the Volga Germans.

A. Shub, The New Russian Tragedy, Norton (New York), 1969,

• A report on the USSR from 1967-1969, including chapters on the democratic movement and samizdat.

M. Slavinsky, La Protesta Intellettuale Nell’URSS, CESES (Milan), 1968.

• A survey of dissent in the mid-1960s.

M. Slavinsky, D. Stolypine, La Vie Littéraire en URSS de 1934 á Nos Jours, Stock (Paris), 1971.

• About two-thirds on post-1953, with emphasis on the heterodox.

W. Taubman, The View from Lenin Hills, Coward-McCann (New York), 1967.

• An American exchange student’s report on young students in Moscow,

N. von Grote, Stimmen aus dem sowjetischen Untergrund, A. Fromm (Osnabrück), 1971.

• A brief survey of recent dissent.

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NOTES

These titles were selected and annotated by Peter Reddaway.

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1. Nowadays referred to as The Great Terror (August 1937-November 1938), see Map of Memory. Convicted in August 1938, Osip Mandelstam died in a transit camp in the Far East on 27 December that year.
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