Category: expulsion from organisation (incl. Party)

Extrajudicial political persecution, Dec 1969 (11.13)

«No 11 : 31 December 1969» GORKY Artsimovich, a journalist from Gorky, was dismissed from the editorial staff of the newspaper where she worked, for reading Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. * MOSCOW Boris Leibovich SHLAYEN is a mechanic at a Moscow factory which repairs calculating machines. After Shlayen applied on 30 December 1968 to the Department … Continue reading Extrajudicial political persecution, Dec 1969 (11.13)

Writers Union expels Solzhenitsyn, Nov 1969 (11.1)

«No 11 : 31 December 1969» On 4 November 1969 the great Russian writer Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was expelled from the Writers' Union by its Ryazan branch (RSFSR Writers Union). * Of the seven members of the Ryazan branch, six attended the meeting: Vasily Matushkin (Ryazan); Sergei Baranov (Ryazan, who chaired the meeting); Nikolai Rodin; … Continue reading Writers Union expels Solzhenitsyn, Nov 1969 (11.1)