<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> SIX ENTRIES [1] At the beginning of April 1972, at a meeting of the Party Bureau of the poetry section (Moscow Writers' Organization), Bulat Okudzhava was asked to publish a letter in Literaturnaya Gazeta condemning the publication by the Possev publishing-house of an anthology of his works (already published, … Continue reading Extrajudicial persecution, July 1972 (26.13)
Sakharov’s “Memorandum”, June 1972 (26.17)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> On 5 March 1971, Academician A. D. Sakharov sent a Memorandum to L. I. Brezhnev. “It has remained unanswered. I do not feel I have the right to defer its publication any longer,” says A. D. Sakharov in a “Postscript” written in June 1972. * As in his previous … Continue reading Sakharov’s “Memorandum”, June 1972 (26.17)