«No 17 : 31 December 1970» The Committee for Human Rights in the USSR -- consisting of Academician A.D. SAKHAROV and physicists Andrei N. TVERDOKHLEBOV and Valery N. CHALIDZE -- was formed in Moscow on 4 November 1970. * Valery Chalidze (1938-2018) * The committee formulated five principles underlying its activities: "1. The Committee for … Continue reading Committee for Human Rights, November 1970 (17.4)
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Александр Галич
Solzhenitsyn’s Deportation, February 1974 (32.1)
<<No 32 : 17 July 1974>> On 13 February 1974, 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 [1]. * "GULAG ARCHIPELAGO" The circumstances surrounding the publication of this book … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn’s Deportation, February 1974 (32.1)