Prisoners of an old regime ♣ Marjorie Farquharson ♣ (July 2000) When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in previous decades seemed to be merely a dry-run. Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993) became Georgia’s first freely-elected President after the Soviet Union collapsed, with a mandate … Continue reading “The freight and the groove” (2000)
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A document of the World Federation for Mental Health, March 1972 (24.7)
<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> This resolution was passed at a meeting of the Executive Board of the World Federation for Mental Health. [29] Hong Kong, 25 November 1971 “There are many definitions of mental health but one thing they all have in common is the recognition of each man’s freedom of opinion which … Continue reading A document of the World Federation for Mental Health, March 1972 (24.7)
Protests and Appeals, May 1976 (40.3a)
<<No 40 : 20 May 1976>> [1] TO THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD My son Mustafa Dzhemilev has been sentenced for the fifth time. The first time, he was sentenced without a trial, together with our whole Crimean Tatar nation, to exile from our homeland ... From his childhood Mustafa dreamed of returning to the … Continue reading Protests and Appeals, May 1976 (40.3a)
Political Prisoners in Psychiatric Hospitals: A Survey of Documents, March 1971 (18.1)
«No 18 : 5 March 1971» The imprisonment of dissenters in psychiatric hospitals continues to be the subject of public concern and protest. 1. In a letter appealing to the psychiatrists of a number of countries, the Action Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the USSR, stresses once more that this form of … Continue reading Political Prisoners in Psychiatric Hospitals: A Survey of Documents, March 1971 (18.1)
The Fate of P.G. Grigorenko, October 1970 (16.9)
<<No 16 : 31 October 1970>> Pyotr Grigorevich Grigorenko is still being held in the Special Pyschiatric Hospital (CCE 14.2 and CCE 15.10, item 1) in Chernyakhovsk [Kaliningrad Region] . For the last few months the ward in which Grigorenko is imprisoned has been fitted with a second lock, the key to which is kept … Continue reading The Fate of P.G. Grigorenko, October 1970 (16.9)
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)
Grigorenko’s 1968 address to the Crimean Tatars
See "Survey of samizdat in 1968" (Chronicle of Current Events, 31 December 1968, 5.1, item 11) Let me express the views of Kostyorin and myself on the immediate problems of your movement. It will soon be twenty-five years since your people were cast out of their homes, were expelled from the land of their forefathers, … Continue reading Grigorenko’s 1968 address to the Crimean Tatars
Samizdat update, August 1970 (15.11)
«No 15 : 31 August 1970» 1. "An Open Letter to Mikis Theodorakis" from Roald Mukhamedyarov, a Moscow worker Pointing out the continuing repressions of a political nature in the USSR and instances of "the grossest violation of the most elementary human rights in our country", the author urges Theodorakis to protest against the violation … Continue reading Samizdat update, August 1970 (15.11)
A Chronicle of Current Events 