Валентин Турчин
<<No 42 : 8 October 1976>> PERIODICALS Aušra [Dawn], No. 3 (June 1976). The first two issues of this Lithuanian journal were briefly summarized in CCEs 39 and 40. The third issue includes eight articles: 1. Kestutis Daugirdas: ‘How Lithuania lost its independence’ (28 pp.) A description of the events of 1939-40. After the secret … Continue reading Samizdat Update, Oct 1976 (42.12)
<< No 40 : 20 May 1976 >> On 12 May 1976 a declaration was issued announcing the formation of a new public association [NGO] in Moscow: the “Group to Assist the Implementation of the Helsinki Agreements in the USSR”. The declaration states: The Group’s aim is to promote the observance of the Final Act … Continue reading A new NGO (Moscow Helsinki Group), May 1976 (40.13)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> V. F. Turchin: The Inertia of Fear, Socialism and Totalitarianism, Part I: Totalitarianism [note 70] In the foreword to the book the author describes his views as positivist and socialist (though not Marxist). He is a supporter of gradual democratic change. He sees the function of critics ’not to … Continue reading Samizdat Update, Dec 1975 (38.20)
<<No 38 : 31 December 1975>> A Chronicle of Current Events on its Founder On 18 December 1975 Natalya Yevgenyevna Gorbanevskaya emigrated. N. E. Gorbanevskaya was born in Moscow in 1936. She graduated from the faculty of philology at Leningrad University. In 1961 she contributed to the typewritten collections of poetry Syntaxis (edited by A. … Continue reading News in Brief, Dec 1975 (38.19)
<<No 34 : 31 December 1974>> On 9 July 1974 Academician A. D. Sakharov made an appeal to the scientists of the world. He called on them to come to the defence of Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, 'who has now had all possibility of scientific and pedagogical work barred to him; … Continue reading Letters and Statements, Dec 1974 (34.19)
Helsinki Groups investigated: Ginzburg & Orlov, 46.5-1 Helsinki Groups investigated: Shcharansky, Ukraine, Georgia, 46.5-2 <<No 46 : 15 August 1977>> The Ginzburg Case Former political prisoners all over the country are being interrogated about the Ginzburg case. * In May 1977 Georgy Davidenko (CCEs 33, 41) was questioned in Nizhny Tagil; Victor Pestov (CCEs 33, … Continue reading Helsinki Groups Investigated, Aug 1977 (46.5-1)
<<No 45 : 25 May 1977>> MOSCOW As reported in CCE 44, the case started against Malva Landa for the fire in her room was sent in February 1977 for further investigation. On 21 April the pretrial investigation was completed. The trial started on 16 May 1977. On 17 May the trial was postponed, at … Continue reading News in Brief, May 1977 (45.18)
<< No 44 : 16 March 1977 >> Arrest of Vasyl Barladeanu, March 1977 (44.13) On 2 March 1977 the art specialist Vasyl Vladimirovich BARLADEANU (b. 1942) was arrested in Odessa. His conflict with the authorities began as long as three years ago; on 28 January 1974 he was interrogated by the Odessa KGB. At … Continue reading Searches, Interrogations, Arrests, 1977 (44.12-15)
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