<<No 22 : 10 November 1971>> [1] On 16 September a group of 36 Moscow Jews went to the premises of the CPSU Central Committee and handed in a letter demanding to be received by a member of the Politburo, in order to discuss the question of emigration to Israel. The letter quoted instances of … Continue reading Movement to Leave for Israel, November 1971 (22.6)
<<No 21 : 11 September 1971>> SEVEN ENTRIES [1] Alexander Solzhenitsyn August 1914 At the beginning of June 1971 there appeared a report of the publication of August 1914 (YMCA Press, Paris), Solzhenitsyn’s new novel. The author’s “Afterword“ to the novel specifies the circumstances which prevented it from being printed by Soviet publishing-houses: “This book … Continue reading Samizdat update, September 1971 (21.11)
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