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)
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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)
COMMENTARY No 29
No 29 : 31 July 1973 29.8 A Chronicle of Case No 24 (pt 2) AI commentary Of the people who figure in this section, the following (see Chronicle 8.10) were founder-members in 1969 of the Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the USSR: Tatyana Velikanova, Sergei Kovalyov, Victor Krasin, //Alexander Lavut, … Continue reading COMMENTARY No 29
Commentary No 28
No 28 : 31 December 1972 28.7 News in brief AI - According to the samizdat "Register of People Convicted in the 1960's" (item 70) Nikolayenko was sentenced in 1969 by the Chernigov Regional Court to 5 years for "anti-Soviet agitation". As 25 year sentences have not been imposed since 1960 it would therefore appear … Continue reading Commentary No 28
Commentary No 7 (June 1969)
<<No 7 : 30 June 1969>> 7.1 THE TRIAL OF GOMER BAEV This probably refers to Nina Senichkina, a researcher at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism attached to the Central Committee of the CPSU, and her article "A fraternal union of free nations", Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 30 December 1967, p. 2. 7.2 THE ARREST OF IVAN YAKHIMOVICH … Continue reading Commentary No 7 (June 1969)
Commentary No 2 (June 1968)
<<No 2, 30 June 1968>> 2.2 -- THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THOSE WHO SIGNED LETTERS [1] In addition to the other repressive measures taken in Novosibirsk, the central press weighed in, and Akademgorodok's famous art gallery was closed down. The permanent pictures were taken to Moscow and buried in the basement of the Tretyakov Museum. Novosibirsk's … Continue reading Commentary No 2 (June 1968)
Commentary No 1 (April 1968)
<<No 1, 30 April 1968> 1.1 THE GALANSKOV-GINZBURG TRIAL The accused [1] Yury Galanskov had long been an active dissenter (see his writings of 1961). In 1965 he staged a one-man demonstration outside the US embassy in Moscow in protest against the American intervention in the Dominican Republic. [For a more extensive biography, CCE 28.1.] … Continue reading Commentary No 1 (April 1968)
