Chronicle of Current Events
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A Chronicle of Current Events was one of the longest running samizdat periodicals of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. This unofficial newsletter reported violations of civil rights and judicial proced
A Chronicle of Current Events No 11, 31 December 1968 (front cover)
Issue 22, dated 10 November 1971
Report on the trial of Natalya Gorbanevskaya, issue 15 (31 August 1970)
Soviet dissidents
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Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them. The term dissident was used in the Soviet Unio
Chronicle of Current Events
…1982 but issue No. 65 never went into circulation. By the mid-1960s critically minded adults and youngsters in Moscow (later they would be known as dissidents) were confronted by a growing range of information about ongoing political repressions in the Soviet Union. For example, in letters home from the prison…
Moscow Helsinki Group members Yuliya Vishnevskya, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Dina Kaminskaya, Kronid Lyubarsky in Munich, 1978
Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov after their arrival for the conferment of the honorary doctorate in law from the University of Groningen, 15 June 1989
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