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Samizdat update, May 1972 (25.11)

12 April 202128 July 2021

<< No 25 : 20 May 1972 >> [1] Social Issues, No. 15 (January-February 1972). The collection consists of three sections. Section One ("Law") contains a translation of an article entitled "Collective Rights and Collective Action under English Law” [author, T.C. Daintith] and a letter from V. Chalidze to the Chairman of the International League … Continue reading Samizdat update, May 1972 (25.11)

Samizdat Update, March 1972 (24.12)

8 April 201627 June 2021

<<No 24 : 5 March 1972>> [1] Our Middle-Eastern Friends: A Survey of the Soviet press, Moscow, 1972 A “collection of quotations” dealing with events in the Middle East, the Middle-Eastern policy of the Soviet Union and its treatment in the Soviet press. The 220 quotations (mainly from Soviet periodicals of 1967-71), arranged in chronological … Continue reading Samizdat Update, March 1972 (24.12)

Samizdat update, January 1972 (23.9)

30 March 201614 December 2021

<<No 23 : 5 January 1972>> [1] Yu. Glazov, V. Kabachnik, V. Turkina, Yu. Shtein, “A message from friends" An Open Letter on the expulsion of Alexander Galich from the USSR Union of Writers. [113] . . Fifteen writers, by voting for his expulsion,have covered themselves with a new shame: We shall remember the names … Continue reading Samizdat update, January 1972 (23.9)

Samizdat update, November 1971 (22.9)

24 March 201616 March 2019

<<No 22 : 10 November 1971>> [1] J.-P. Sartre, Reflections on the Jewish question (Translated from Polish) The Polish translation, by Jerzy Lisowski, was published in the journal Tworczosc (Creativity), Warsaw, 1956, Nos. 9, 10. The essay was written in 1944-46 and published in France in 1946. It is a philosophical and publicistic work, containing … Continue reading Samizdat update, November 1971 (22.9)

Samizdat update, September 1971 (21.11)

23 March 201629 July 2021

<<No 21 : 11 September 1971>> [1] A. I. Solzhenitsyn, August 1914 At the beginning of June 1971 there appeared a report of the publication of A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s new novel August 1914 (YMCA Press, Paris). The author’s “Afterword“ to the novel specifies the circumstances which prevented it from being printed by Soviet publishing-houses: “This … Continue reading Samizdat update, September 1971 (21.11)

Samizdat update: July 1971 (20.12)

23 March 201610 February 2021

<<No 20 : 2 July 1971>> (1) Herald of the Exodus No. 1 (a collection of documents) Contents On the eve of the trials (letters from relatives and friends of the accused in Leningrad, Kishinyov, and Riga);Visits by groups of Jews to USSR government bodies; The departure applications of M. Kalik and V. Slepak; Letters, … Continue reading Samizdat update: July 1971 (20.12)

Samizdat update, April 1971 (19.12)

19 March 201616 March 2019

<<No 19 : 30 April 1971>> [1] Social Issues, issue No. 9 (January-February 1971), compiled by V. Chalidze. Contents: [1] O.O. Gruzenberg, “Shame” (reminiscences of the Beilis case [of 1911-13]). The author, one of Beilis’s defence counsels, describes the attitude of the authorities, public reaction to the trial and the selection of a line of … Continue reading Samizdat update, April 1971 (19.12)

Samizdat update, December 1970 (17.13)

9 August 20147 August 2021

<<No 17 : 31 December 1970>> [1] He was sent by the God of wrath and grief... This line by Nekrasov has been taken as the title of a collection of materials on Solzhenitsyn. The foreword points out the profound contrast between the opinions expressed in our press of the writer's work and of his … Continue reading Samizdat update, December 1970 (17.13)

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“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regard-less of frontiers.”

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