<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> [1] This date, 3 ½ weeks later than the date on the Chronicle's title-page, is nonetheless correct, and illustrates one aspect of how the Chronicle is compiled. A cut-off date is chosen by the editors (in this case 14 May 1978), and then all material about events prior to that … Continue reading End notes (49.21)
Category: Commentary
Commentary No 16 (October 1970)
No 16 : 31 October 1970 16.2 THE TRIAL OF PIMENOV AND VAIL Makeyev is the deputy head of the department of housing and communal services [ZhKU], and not, as the Chronicle stated, the head of the department of buildings and works [ZhSU], 16.6 RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION English texts of many of these documents may be … Continue reading Commentary No 16 (October 1970)
Commentary No 5 (December 1968)
No 5 : 31 December 1969 5.1 SURVEY OF SAMIZDAT IN 1968 [1] Notable prose works appearing in samizdat during previous years. Ginzburg, Krutoi marshrut (1967 (in Grani 64-8, Frankfurt); Into the Whirlwind (London 1967) Shalamov stories published 1966-1970 in Novy zhurnal (New York); two included in Michael Scammell (ed), Russia's Other Writers (1970). Lidiya … Continue reading Commentary No 5 (December 1968)
Commentary No 18 (April 1971)
No 18 : 5 March 1971 18.1 POLITICAL PRISONERS IN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS The Russian text of one of Zinaida Grigorenko's letters, dated 11 February, and addressed to "The World Mental Health Society", is in Possev 5, 1971, pp 5-6. English extracts were published in The Observer, 2 May 1971. Chernyshov appeal. Russian text in Possev … Continue reading Commentary No 18 (April 1971)
COMMENTARY No 6
No 6 : 28 February 1969 6.2 The case of Boris Kochubievsky [1] "... who is of Russian nationality". This does not refer just to Larisa Kochubievskaya's ethnic and cultural background and origins in the multi-ethnic Soviet Union. From 196// onwards Soviet ID documents (internal "passports") carried an entry that, from 16 years onwards, fixed … Continue reading COMMENTARY No 6
COMMENTARY (international law)
International Law Availability of these fundamental texts in a repressive and pre-Internet era. Bukovsky example of Soviet Constitution at Lefortovo Prison. Alexeyeva assertion that only after 1975 did the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ratified by the Soviet Union in ///, become readily available to ordinary citizens of the USSR. Consequence, lack … Continue reading COMMENTARY (international law)
Commentary No 11 (December 1969)
<<No 11 : 31 December 1969>> 11.1 The expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Writers Union [1] Sakhalin - an island off the Far Eastern coast of the Soviet Union, visited by Chekhov in 1890. His impressions of the forced labour camps and exiles' settlements located there are recorded in Sakhalin Island, first published in 1893-4. … Continue reading Commentary No 11 (December 1969)
COMMENTARY No 8 (June 1969)
<<No 8 : 30 June 1969>> 8.5 The 6 June 1969 demonstration by five Crimean Tatars on Mayakovsky Square See Julius Telesin's detailed account of this episode in his preface to Uncensored Russia, pp. 49-50. 8.10 An appeal to the UN Commission on Human Rights A fortnight after Pyotr Grigorenko's arrest the Action Group for … Continue reading COMMENTARY No 8 (June 1969)
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