«No 28 : 31 December 1972» On 2 November 1972 Yury Galanskov died at the age of 33 in institution ZhKh 385-3 of the Mordovian camp complex. * Yury Timofeyevich GALANSKOV was born in 1939 in Moscow, into a family of workers. From 1959 onwards he took part in readings by young poets in Mayakovsky … Continue reading Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972, Dec 1972 (28.2)
Category: Protests
Solzhenitsyn’s Deportation, February 1974 (32.1)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 13 February 1974, after a prolonged and large-scale persecution campaign in the press, Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was deported from the Soviet Union. The immediate cause was the publication of his GULag Archipelago by the YMCA Press [1]. * "GULAG ARCHIPELAGO" The circumstances surrounding the publication of this book … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn’s Deportation, February 1974 (32.1)
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