<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> [1] M. I. Kukobaka – “Détente and the Defence of Human Rights are Inseparable” (3 April 1977, 9 pp) The author criticizes those Western politicians who consider that President Carter’s human rights policy is prejudicial to détente (‘dangerous illusions’) and maintains that the best guarantee for the observance of … Continue reading Samizdat Update, May 1977 (45.20)
Category: publications
News in Brief, October 1972 (27.12)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> On 21 August in Moscow City Court the trial took place of Ilya Glezer, charged with "‘the manufacture and dissemination of libellous letters and documents designed to undermine the Soviet State system" (see CCE 24.10 [and CCE 25.10, item 18]). The judge was Bogdanov, the Procurator Funtov and the … Continue reading News in Brief, October 1972 (27.12)
Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
On 26 July 1972, the paper Evening Tbilisi [Vecherny Tbilisi] published an interview with the Rector of the Pushkin Pedagogical institute in Tbilisi, Natela Vasadze. it included, amongst other things, the following exchange: Correspondent -- At a recent Plenum of the City Council one of your teachers was criticised for performing religious ceremonies in a … Continue reading Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
Samizdat update, October 1972 (27.13)
<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> [1] I. Alexandrov [?pseudonym] – “Brief Notes on the Present-Day Crisis” An essay containing an appraisal of the present state of affairs in the country and some forecasts for the future. The author feels that phenomena of crisis in the Soviet Union are starting to assume a universal character, … Continue reading Samizdat update, October 1972 (27.13)
Bibliographical Note, 1979 (CCE 51)
<<No 51 : 1 December 1978>> The original Russian text of Chronicle 51, of which this book is a translation, appeared as a booklet without annotations, Khronika tekushchikh sobytii, Khronika Press: New York, 1979. * Earlier issues of the Chronicle are available in English from two main sources. Numbers 16-51 have been published by Amnesty … Continue reading Bibliographical Note, 1979 (CCE 51)
Samizdat Update, July 1972 (26.16)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> Veche, No. 5 (25 May 1972) Contents 1. Statement by the editors of the journal Veche – a protest against the police swoop by employees of station No. 2 of the Moscow UVD [Department of Internal Affairs] on editor Vladimir Osipov (see this issue, CCE 26.14), 2. "The Role … Continue reading Samizdat Update, July 1972 (26.16)
Extrajudicial persecution (26.13)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> At the beginning of April 1972, at a meeting of the Party Bureau of the poetry section [of the Moscow Writers' Organization], Bulat Okudzhava was asked to publish a letter in the paper Literary Gazette condemning the publication by the Possev publishing-house of an anthology of his works (already … Continue reading Extrajudicial persecution (26.13)
Samizdat update, May 1972 (25.11)
<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> [1] Social Issues, No. 15 (January-February 1972). The collection consists of three sections. Section One ("Law") contains a translation of an article entitled "Collective Rights and Collective Action under English Law” [author, T.C. Daintith] and a letter from V. Chalidze to the Chairman of the International League … Continue reading Samizdat update, May 1972 (25.11)
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