«No 21 : 11 September 1971» TWENTY-THREE ITEMS (1) MOSCOW. On 27 April 1971, Rolan Teodorovich AVGUSTOV (b. 1941), an electrician resident in Uman (Cherkassy Region) in the Ukraine, was detained at the entrance of the American Embassy. He had come to Moscow with a statement to the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet renouncing … Continue reading News in Brief: September 1971 (21.10)
Category: expulsion from organisation (incl. Party)
Writers Union expels Solzhenitsyn (2), Feb 1970 (12.7)
«No 12 : 28 February 1970» Supplementary Material More details have become known about the expulsion of Solzhenitsyn (CCE 11.1) from the Union of Soviet Writers. * At the beginning of November 1969 the secretary of the Ryazan writers' organisation E. Safonov was summoned to Moscow to see L. Sobolev (RSFSR Writers' Union) and "fix" … Continue reading Writers Union expels Solzhenitsyn (2), Feb 1970 (12.7)
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