THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION (Jonathan Cape: London)

The annotated text of the unofficial Moscow journal “A Chronicle of Current Events” (Nos 1-11). Edited, introduced and translated by Peter Reddaway, with a forward by Julius Telesin (499 pp)

PART 1: THE MIRROR OF THE MOVEMENT
The Chronicle about itself

PART 2: THE MAINSTREAM
The case of Sinyavsky and Daniel
The Galanskov-Ginzburg trial
The invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Red Square demonstration
The trial of the demonstrators
General Grigorenko and his friends
The Action Group for the Defence of Civil Rights
The case of the Baltic Fleet officers

PART 3: THE MOVEMENT IN CAPTIVITY
The case of Anatoly Marchenko
The camps and prisons
The prison mental hospitals

PART 4: INDIVIDUAL STREAMS
The Crimean Tatars
The Meskhetians
The Ukrainians
The Jews
The churches

PART 5: MAINSTREAM PUBLICATIONS
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The world of samizdat

PART 6: TRIBUTARIES
Leningrad, the provinces and republics:
Gorky, Perm, Ufa, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk, Magadan,
Karaganda, Uzbekistan, Grozny, Latvia, Estonia,
Vladimir, Elektrostal, Pushchino, Obninsk, Moscow

PART 7: DAMS
Stalin, Stalinists, Fascists and censors

CONCLUSION