<<No 27 : 15 October 1972>> On 21 August in Moscow City Court the trial took place of Ilya Glezer, charged with "‘the manufacture and dissemination of libellous letters and documents designed to undermine the Soviet State system" (see CCE 24.10 [and CCE 25.10, item 18]). The judge was Bogdanov, the Procurator Funtov and the … Continue reading News in Brief, October 1972 (27.12)
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Жорез Медведев
New Functions for the [Security] services (26.10)
<<No 26 : 5 July 1972>> On 2 July the Ninth International Congress of Gerontologists opened in Kiev. An hour before the inauguration of the congress the well-known Soviet biologist Zhores Medvedev, expounded a theory on the causes of ageing which has been received with much interest, was detained and expelled from Kiev. Zh. A. … Continue reading New Functions for the [Security] services (26.10)
The expulsion of L.K. Chukovskaya, Spring 1974 (32.14)
from the USSR Writers’ Union. In March 1974, the Information Bulletin of the Board Secretariat of the USSR Writers' Union (an internal publication of the Secretariat) contained the following announcement: In the Secretariat of the Board of the Moscow Writers’ OrganizationThe disciplinary case of L.K. Chukovskaya was discussed at a meeting of the Secretariat of … Continue reading The expulsion of L.K. Chukovskaya, Spring 1974 (32.14)
The Confinement of Zhores Medvedev in a Psychiatric Hospital, June 1970 (14.3)
<<No 14 : 30 June 1970>> (In this account of events Roy Medvedev's detailed notes have been used.) On the evening of 29 May 1970 Zhores Medvedev was taken from his flat in Obninsk, Kaluga Region, to the Kaluga city psychiatric hospital for "diagnosis" and "observation”. A group of policemen led by a major, the … Continue reading The Confinement of Zhores Medvedev in a Psychiatric Hospital, June 1970 (14.3)
Samizdat update, February 1970 (12.10)
«No 12 : 28 February 1970» [1] Nadezhda Ya. Mandelstam, Recollections of O. E. Mandelstam This book is about the fate of the poet and the fate of a generation. A memorial to an era. [Translated into English and published as Hope against Hope.] [2] Vasily Grossman, Everything flows ... V. Grossman wrote this novel … Continue reading Samizdat update, February 1970 (12.10)
Solzhenitsyn’s expulsion from the Writers’ Union, 4 November 1969 (11.1)
«No 11 : 31 December 1969» On 4 November 1969 the great Russian writer Alexander Isayevich SOLZHENITSYN was expelled from the Writers' Union by the Ryazan branch of the Writers' Union of the Russian Republic (RSFSR). Of the seven members of the Ryazan branch, six were present at the meeting: Vasily Matushkin (Ryazan); Sergei Baranov … Continue reading Solzhenitsyn’s expulsion from the Writers’ Union, 4 November 1969 (11.1)
Lysenkoites raise their heads, February 1969 (6.7)
No 6 : 28 February 1969 The Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house was due to bring out a book by S. Reznik, Nikolai Vavilov, in its series “The Lives of Outstanding People”. In the book the role of T.D. Lysenko in the tragedy of our biological science is described objectively and in detail. On 19 December … Continue reading Lysenkoites raise their heads, February 1969 (6.7)
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