<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> MOSCOW [1] Alexander Galich, previously expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers (CCE 23) has also been expelled from the Literary Fund [Litfond] and the Union of Soviet Cinematographers. [38] [2] At the end of January 1972 the writer Vladimir Maximov was summoned by the secretary of the Moscow … Continue reading Extra-judicial Persecution, March 1972 (24.10)
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Александр Галич
Samizdat update, January 1972 (23.9)
<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> [1] Yu. Glazov, V. Kabachnik, V. Turkina, Yu. Shtein “A message from friends" An Open Letter on the expulsion of Alexander Galich from the USSR Union of Writers. [113] . . Fifteen writers, by voting for his expulsion, have covered themselves with a new shame: We shall remember the … Continue reading Samizdat update, January 1972 (23.9)
News in Brief, January 1972 (23.7)
<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> [1] TASHKENT At the end of July 1971 two members of the national movement of the Crimean Tatar people were convicted -– Aishe Seitmuratova, [101] a [history] lecturer at Samarkand University, and Lenur [or Denur?] Ibragimov, a teacher. They were charged with the preparation and circulation of material slandering … Continue reading News in Brief, January 1972 (23.7)
The Committee for Human Rights in the USSR, 4 November 1970 (17.4)
«No 17 : 31 December 1970» The Committee for Human Rights, consisting of Academician A.D. Sakharov and physicists A.N. Tverdokhlebov and V.N. Chalidze, was formed in Moscow on 4 November 1970. The committee formulated five principles underlying its activities: "1. The Committee for Human Rights is a creative association acting in accordance with the laws … Continue reading The Committee for Human Rights in the USSR, 4 November 1970 (17.4)
The deportation of Solzhenitsyn, 13 February 1974 (32.1)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 13 February, after a prolonged and large-scale persecution campaign in the press, Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was deported from the Soviet Union. The immediate cause was the publication of his GULag Archipelago by the YMCA Press (CCE 30.16).[1] The circumstances surrounding the publication of this book, as well as … Continue reading The deportation of Solzhenitsyn, 13 February 1974 (32.1)
