«No 8 : 30 June 1969» [1] In mid-May 1969, workers at the Kiev Hydroelectric Station in the village of Beryozka met to discuss the housing problem: many of them are even now still living in prefabricated huts and railway coaches despite the authorities' promises to provide housing. The workers declared that they no longer … Continue reading News in brief, June 1969 (8.14)
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About Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 26 June 1968 (2.5)
<< No 2, 30 June 1968 >> A leading article in Literaturnaya gazeta [the weekly Literary Gazette] of 26 June 1968 and a letter printed in it from Alexander Solzhenitsyn dated 21 April 1968, raise for the first time in the pages of the Soviet press the question of what has happened to the unpublished … Continue reading About Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 26 June 1968 (2.5)
Certain episodes in the campaign against those who signed letters, June 1968 (2.2)
<< No 2 : 30 June 1968 >> In Novosibirsk, the central theme in the persecution campaign has come to be the aim of purging Akademgorodok, i.e. the university and the institutes of the Siberian Section of the USSR Academy of Sciences (SSAS), of those who signed the Novosibirsk letter. This aim has found expression … Continue reading Certain episodes in the campaign against those who signed letters, June 1968 (2.2)
Protests about the trial [December 1967 to March 1968] (1.2)
<< No 1 : 30 April 1968 >> The Moscow trial of Galanskov, Ginzburg, Dobrovolsky and Lashkova provoked a widespread response among the Soviet public. The first of these was an appeal, written while the trial was still in progress by Larissa Bogoraz and Pavel Litvinov, and addressed "To World Public Opinion". it described the … Continue reading Protests about the trial [December 1967 to March 1968] (1.2)
Extra-judicial political repression in 1968-9, February 1969 (6.5)
<< No 6 : 28 February 1969 >> EVENTS IN GORKY In addition to the details given in CCE 5 [CCE 5.3, Nos 128-136], the Chronicle is now able to report the following. In April 1968 leaflets appeared at the Polytechnic, Pedagogical and Medical Institutes, and at the University of Gorky, calling on people to “follow … Continue reading Extra-judicial political repression in 1968-9, February 1969 (6.5)
Extra-judicial political repression in 1968 (2.1)
<< No 2 : 30 June 1968 >> In the first issue of the Chronicle a number of people were named who have been excluded from the Party for signing letters [CCE 1.2] about the trial of Galanskov-Ginzburg and others, and for certain other “ideological” misdemeanours. The surnames of certain people dismissed from their jobs … Continue reading Extra-judicial political repression in 1968 (2.1)
