The Committee on Human Rights in the USSR (Russian: Комите́т прав челове́ка в СССР) was founded in 1970 by dissident Valery Chalidze together with Andrei...
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in May 1969 with an appeal to the UN Human Rights Committee; the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR was established in 1970; and a Soviet section of...
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"The Committee on Human Rights" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the American period spy drama television series The Americans. It is the...
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The Initiative or Action Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR (Russian: Инициати́вная гру́ппа по защи́те прав челове́ка в СССР) was the first...
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Larisa Bogoraz (category Linguists from the Soviet Union)
human rights. She also became chairwoman of the Seminar on Human Rights, a joint Russian-American nongovernmental organization. She resigned from the...
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a member of the Central Executive Committee (ЦИК) of the USSR. Her son by this marriage, Vasily Aksyonov, born in 1932, became a well-known writer. After...
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Andrei Tverdokhlebov (category Soviet emigrants to the United States)
and human rights activist. In 1970, he founded - along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Sakharov - the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR. In 1973...
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throughout the USSR. The longest serving premier in the history of the USSR was Alexei Kosygin, who was appointed head of government after the ousting of...
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Valeriya Novodvorskaya (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
her experience in her book Beyond Despair. Based on the materials of the case, the Moscow prosecutor's office of the USSR compiled the following certificate...
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Alexander Galich (writer) (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
of the Soviet regime in his music caused him many problems. After it was established in 1970, the dissident Committee on Human Rights in the USSR included...
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for Human Rights (Africa) Kurdish Human Rights Project (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran & elsewhere) Memorial (Ex-USSR) Regional Council on Human Rights in Asia...
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Enn Tarto (category Estonian people imprisoned in the Soviet Union)
chairman of the Estonian Society of Pan-Europe, and chairman of council of the Estonian Human Rights Institute from 1992 to 1995. He participated in the re-founded...
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Soviet dissidents (redirect from Dissident movement in the Soviet Union)
In August 1969, for instance, the Initiating Group for Defense of Civil Rights in the USSR appealed to the United Nations Committee on Human Rights to...
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in labor camps. Starting with the Action (Initiative) Group formed in 1969 by 15 dissidents and the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR founded in 1970...
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Benjamin Fain (section In Israel)
attempted to learn the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Fain was strongly impressed by the historical visit of the first Israeli ambassador to USSR, Golda Meir...
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We (novel) (redirect from The Glass Fortress (film))
Kniga. ISBN 978-5-212-00084-0. (bibrec) (bibrec (in Russian)) We was first published in the USSR in this collection of Zamyatin's works. (Brown, p. xiv...
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Nikolai Berdyaev (redirect from This was once revealed to me in a dream)
existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person. Nikolai Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic...
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Soviet Union (redirect from The USSR)
Andrey Vyshinsky. The USSR and other countries in the Soviet Bloc had abstained from affirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), saying that...
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Andrei Sakharov (category Soviet human rights activists)
among the three founding members of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov.: 21 The Committee wrote...
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Lev Kopelev (category Expelled members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
memoir The Education of a True Believer. Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow later quoted him directly (see also Collectivisation in the USSR). He graduated...
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the USSR was disbanded. There were seven Chairmen of the Council of Ministers between 1946 and early 1991, who were in effect the Premier of the USSR...
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Alexander Esenin-Volpin (category Soviet human rights activists)
the USSR. In 1970, Volpin joined the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and worked with Yuri Orlov, Andrei Sakharov and other activists. In May 1972...
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Grigory Melkonyants (category Russian human rights activists)
1981, Astrakhan, USSR) is a Russian human rights activist, lawyer, and public figure. He is the co-chair of the movement for voters' rights "Golos". He is...
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Vasily Aksyonov (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
Vasily Aksyonov was born to Pavel Aksyonov and Yevgenia Ginzburg in Kazan, USSR on August 20, 1932. His mother, Yevgenia Ginzburg, was a successful journalist...
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Avital Sharansky (category Denaturalized citizens of the Soviet Union)
Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights. Boston: Beacon Press, 1980. 249. Gurock, Jeffrey S. Jews in Gotham: New York Jews in a Changing City, 1920-2010...
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Irina Ratushinskaya (category Denaturalized citizens of the Soviet Union)
matchstick on soap until memorized and then washed away, number some 250. They expressed an appreciation for human rights; liberty, freedom, and the beauty...
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Konstantin Paustovsky (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
were “Na vode” (“On The Water”) and “Chetvero” (“The Four”) in 1911 and 1912. During World War I, he wrote sketches of life at the front, one of which...
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(PDF) from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2014. "Documents on the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the USSR". Human Rights Watch Records...
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Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR (1969) and the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR (1970). Though faced with the loss of many members...
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Merab Kostava (category Road incident deaths in the Soviet Union)
established the Initiative Group for defence of Human Rights. In 1976 Kostava co-founded the Georgian Helsinki Group (later renamed the Georgian Helsinki...
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