Workers of all Lands, Unite! COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION. CENTRAL COMMITTEE Must be returned within 1 month of receipt to CPSU Central Committee (General Department, sector 2) TOP SECRET St-119/11s 15 January 1971 Excerpt from Minute No. 119/11s of the Central Committee Secretariat Note from the KGB at the USSR Council of Ministers … Continue reading KGB report about samizdat, 15 January 1971
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17.14 Those arrested in 1969 (Supplement, part 1)
No 17 : 31 December 1970 (January 1971 Supplement to Chronicle No 17) PERSONS CONVICTED OR ARRESTED FOR POLITICAL REASONS IN 1969 and 1970 PART ONE THOSE ARRESTED IN 1969 AND BROUGHT TO TRIAL IN 1970 Those who appeared in an earlier such list (see 11.17), are marked with an asterisk. A reference is given … Continue reading 17.14 Those arrested in 1969 (Supplement, part 1)
10.15 News in brief
No 10 : 31 August 1969 [1] On 13 June the poet Ivan Sokulsky, who is about 30 years old, was arrested in Dnepropetrovsk [in S.E. Ukraine]. He had earlier been dismissed from his job and expelled from Dnepropetrovsk University where he was in his fifth year. After this he worked as a fireman and … Continue reading 10.15 News in brief
2.2 Certain episodes in the campaign against those who signed letters
<< 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 2.2 Certain episodes in the campaign against those who signed letters
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 (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)
