<<No 29 : 31 July 1973>> Irina Kristi, Tatyana Velikanova, 0lga Joffe, Irina Kaplun, Ludmila Kardasevich, Yury Kiselev, Malva Landa, Sergei Khodorovich, Tatyana Khodorovich and Nadezhda Shatunovskaya have sent a letter to R. A. Rudenko, Procurator-General of the USSR. It concerns a violation committed by the Moscow City Procurator’s Office with respect to S.G. Myuge … Continue reading News in Brief, July 1973 (29.11)
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Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
On 26 July 1972, the paper Evening Tbilisi [Vecherny Tbilisi] published an interview with the Rector of the Pushkin Pedagogical institute in Tbilisi, Natela Vasadze. it included, amongst other things, the following exchange: Correspondent -- At a recent Plenum of the City Council one of your teachers was criticised for performing religious ceremonies in a … Continue reading Materials from the Soviet press, 1972 (27.10)
Alternative Culture, May 1978 (49.16)
<<No 49 : 14 May 1978>> Since 1974 an artists’ movement to make art independent of the authorities has become well known: the ’bulldozed’ exhibition and the exhibition of the Izmailovsky Park in Moscow (CCE 34); the exhibitions in the ’Bee-keeping’ pavilion (CCE 35) and the ‘Model House of Culture’ at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements … Continue reading Alternative Culture, May 1978 (49.16)
Writer-Parasites, March 1978 (48.19)
<<No 48 : 14 March 1978>> Writer-Parasites (48.19) and In the Central House of Writers (48.20) Writer-Parasites (48.19) Since the beginning of 1978, the activity of the administrative authorities aimed at classifying a number of writers living in the USSR as ‘parasites' or ‘persons leading a parasitical way of life' (the best known of the previous … Continue reading Writer-Parasites, March 1978 (48.19)
The expulsion of V. Voinovich, Spring 1974 (32.17-2)
from the USSR Writers’ Union. A meeting of the bureau of the prose section was arranged several times and cancelled for lack of a quorum: the majority of bureau members failed to appear “because of illness”. The meeting eventually took place on 30 January 1974. Georgy Radov was in the chair. He made a brief … Continue reading The expulsion of V. Voinovich, Spring 1974 (32.17-2)
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)
No 45 : 25 May 1977
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Some of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE Nos 43-45, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page. TRIALS (1) The Trial of Anton Pype [123] (2) The Trial of Volkov and … Continue reading No 45 : 25 May 1977
No 56 : 30 April 1980
THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUES Some of the reports in this issue have been digitised. Page numbers for the pdf version (CCE Nos 55 & 56, see below) are given next to the items in this Contents page *** 1. The Exile of Andrei Sakharov [46] 2. The Death of … Continue reading No 56 : 30 April 1980
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