<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> In this section those statements from the many available to the Chronicle which have not been sufficiently reflected in other sections of this issue are either summarized and quoted in extracts or presented in full. (1) Academician Andrei Sakharov [Note 1] “To the General Secretary of the CPSU Central … Continue reading Letters and Statements, July 1974 (32.22)
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Related texts (1974)
<<Other texts and documents>> Français : Deutsch : Other languages. Russian version published abroad Publishers Amsterdam = Herzen Institute, Amsterdam (CCE 11.15, item 4) Frankfurt = Possev Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main (FRG) New York = Chalidze Press (1973 onward) Paris = YMCA Press, Paris ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITIONS (AND TAMIZDAT) Amalrik, Andrei, Will the Soviet Union survive until 1984? … Continue reading Related texts (1974)
Death of a Dissenter
The mid-1980s were marked by the deaths of several dissenters as a result of the treatment meted out in the Soviet penal service's maximum-security facilities: Valery MARCHENKO in 1984 (Haass Hospital, Leningrad); Vasyl STUS in 1985 (Perm 36); and Anatoly MARCHENKO in 1986 (Chistopol Prison). In all three cases lack of appropriate medical care is … Continue reading Death of a Dissenter
Soviet Dissent and “Index on Censorship”
A LETTER FROM MOSCOW (8 August 1968) The original impetus for the creation of the Index on Censorship magazine came from an Open Letter addressed "To World Public Opinion" by two Soviet dissenters, Pavel Litvinov and Larisa Bogoraz. Larisa Bogoraz and Pavel Litvinov, Moscow Describing "the atmosphere of illegality" surrounding the January 1968 trial of … Continue reading Soviet Dissent and “Index on Censorship”
Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky & Lashkova Trial: 8-12 January 1968 (1.1)
<<No 1 : 30 April 1968>> On 10 December 1968 it will be twenty years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of Human Rights. "Human Rights Year" began all over the world on 10 December 1967. On 11 December 1967 the trial of Yury GALANSKOV, Alexander GINZBURG, Alexei DOBROVOLSKY and Vera LASHKOVA … Continue reading Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky & Lashkova Trial: 8-12 January 1968 (1.1)
Hunger strikes in Mordovia, November-December 1969 (11.4)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» In November-December 1969 there was a wave of hunger-strikes in the Potma camps for political prisoners: Dubrovlag (Institution 385) [see Map 3]. In the work area of Camp 3 (not to be confused with the hospital area which is also a part of Camp 3) there was a hunger-strike … Continue reading Hunger strikes in Mordovia, November-December 1969 (11.4)
Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972 (December 1972; 28.2)
«No 28 : 31 December 1972» On 2 November 1972 Yury GALANSKOV died at the age of 33 in the Mordovian camp complex (in institution ZhKh 385-3). * Yury Timofeyevich GALANSKOV was born in 1939 in Moscow, into a family of workers. From 1959 onwards he took part in readings by young poets in Mayakovsky … Continue reading Yury Galanskov, 1939-1972 (December 1972; 28.2)
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