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Russian Intellectuals Face Harsh Suppression
AP correspondent William L. Ryan traces the Soviet civil rights movement as it faces Kremlin repression. It highlights Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, the underground press, and milestones from 1962 to 1970 including the Phoenix group, All Russian Social Christian Union, Veche, and the Human Rights Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrei D. Sakharov
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
Soviet Union
Kremlin
William L. Ryan
United States
West
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Communist Party
Phoenix Group
Samizdat
Leningrad
All Russian Social Christian Union
Yuri Daniel
Andrei Sinyavsky
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Natalaya Gorbanovskaya
KGB
Sakharov
Valentyn Turchin
Roi Medvedev
Sakhov
Human Rights Committee
Solzhenitsyn