The oldest human rights group in the Soviet Union, with members from Moscow, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, the Action Group began its activities in 1969 by appealing, over the head of the Soviet government, to the UN Human Rights Commission. Its formal existence ended with the arrest and imprisonment in 1979 of Tatyana Velikanova. * To … Continue reading Action Group for Defence of Human Rights in USSR
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Soviet Dissent & “Index on Censorship”
«Other related documents and texts» * A LETTER FROM MOSCOW (8 August 1968) The original impetus for the creation of the "Index on Censorship" magazine came from an Open Letter addressed "To World Public Opinion" by two Soviet dissenters, Pavel Litvinov and Larissa Bogoraz. Describing "the atmosphere of illegality" surrounding the January 1968 trial of … Continue reading Soviet Dissent & “Index on Censorship”
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