<<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)
Category: Soviet press
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)
The Trial of Alexander Feldman (30.5)
<< No 30 : 31 December 1973 >> On 18 October 1973, Alexander Dmitrievich Feldman was arrested in Kiev on a charge of hooliganism. The following day his flat was searched (by a search party equipped with its own key). Feldman himself was not present at the search, during which the following items were confiscated: … Continue reading The Trial of Alexander Feldman (30.5)
Discussion of the Draft [1977] Constitution, pt 2 (47.16)
«No 47 : 30 November 1977» The third and fourth issues of the bulletin Concerning the Draft Constitution of the USSR (for issues 1 and 2 see CCE 46.18), include the letter by Mark Popovsky mentioned in CCE 46, another letter by Leonard Ternovsky, letters from Orion Kvachevsky, Larisa Bogoraz, Yury Grimm, Yury Sergeyev, Yevgeny … Continue reading Discussion of the Draft [1977] Constitution, pt 2 (47.16)
The Arrest of Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Merab Kostava, 7 April 1978 (45.9)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> On 23 March, the Tbilisi newspaper Dawn of the East printed an anonymous article, “Who benefits from this?” On 24 March, the article was republished in Georgian in the newspaper Komunisti. The same day Z. Gamsakhurdia was expelled from the Writers’ Union. On 25 March Zviad Gamsakhurdia issued a … Continue reading The Arrest of Zviad Gamsakhurdia and Merab Kostava, 7 April 1978 (45.9)
From the Soviet Press, 1977-1978 (48.22)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> In 1963 Lenizdat published The Enemy Will Not Achieve His Aim by V.N. Lyakin, P.M. Petrov, K.G. Rogov and N.P. Chursinov. On pp. 175-176 it has this to say about Alexander Petrov-Agatov (CCE 44.3): “In October 1961, a certain Petrov-Agatov addressed himself to a manager of an institution and … Continue reading From the Soviet Press, 1977-1978 (48.22)
In Defence of Davidovich, 1975-1976 (39.4)
<< No 39 : 12 March 1976 >> On 9 May 1975, at 12 noon, on the thirtieth anniversary of the victory over German fascism, a Jewish anti-fascist meeting took place in Minsk. War veterans, former partisans and young people gathered in the former ghetto district. About five hundred people were present, including Jews from … Continue reading In Defence of Davidovich, 1975-1976 (39.4)
