<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> MOSCOW On 20 April 1972 the arrest took place of the store-keeper of the Institute of Psychology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, Pyotr Petrovich STARCHIK (b. 1937). He has two children: the elder is 6, the younger 10 months. The investigation into his case is being … Continue reading Searches, Interrogations, Arrests: January to May 1972 (25.2)
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Ольга Йофе
The Trial of Olga Joffe, 20 August 1970 (15.2)
«No 15 : 31 August 1970» The trial of Olga Joffe took place on 20 August 1970 in the Moscow City Court. She was charged under Article 70 of the Russian Criminal Code with taking an active part in the preparation of 245 leaflets of anti-Soviet content, and with the possession and circulation of documents … Continue reading The Trial of Olga Joffe, 20 August 1970 (15.2)
Arrests among Moscow students, December 1969 (11.7)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» On 20 November 1969, the KGB arrested Vyacheslav Bakhmin, a fourth-year student of the physics and chemistry department of the Moscow Institute of Physics Technology Bakhmin is twenty-two years old, and was a pupil at the Kolmogorov boarding school (No. 18). He entered the Institute in 1966. A search … Continue reading Arrests among Moscow students, December 1969 (11.7)
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).[a] The circumstances surrounding the publication of this book, as well as … Continue reading The deportation of Solzhenitsyn, 13 February 1974 (32.1)
