A file containing documents relating to dissent in the Soviet Union. Subjects covered in the file include analysis of the dissident journal Chronicle of Current Events, which had been disrupted by the Soviet Committee for State Security (K.G.B.); the emergence of a new dissident group, the Initiative Group for People's Democracy; a lecture given in London by an expert on Soviet dissent, Kronid Lyubarskii; and a wave of arrests of dissidents in several cities. Other subjects discussed in the file include a meeting between an exiled dissident, Aleksandr Ginzburg, and the Foreign Office minister Malcolm Rifkind; the demise of the Moscow Helsinki monitoring group; and the emergence of a new breed of "politicised" dissidents. Documents in the file include a summary and chronology of dissident activity between May and August 1982; and biographical notes on forty prisoners of conscience, including Andrei Sakharov and Anatolii Shcharanskii.
- Collection ID
- FCO28
- Copyright
- The rights holder for content from USSR News Brief could not be identified. We invite anyone with information about the copyright holder of this item to contact us. The rights holder for content from USSR News Brief could not be identified. We invite anyone with information about the copyright holder of this item to contact us.
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Department Reference
- ENS 15/1
- Document Type
- Correspondence Meeting Minutes Memoranda Print Publications Reports
- File Reference
- FCO 28/5093
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fco28.005093
- Note
- NATO documents in this file were removed in accordance with international agreements. Documents or parts of documents in this file were retained under Section 3(4) of the Public Records Act 1958.
- Pages
- 167
- Persons Discussed
- Aleksandr Ginzburg Anatolii Shcharanskii Andrei Sakharov Malcolm Rifkind Nicholas Bethell Peter Blaker
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Soviet Union
- Themes
- Dissent, Resistance, and Human Rights Domestic Politics
