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Kremlin Moves Against Soviet Dissenters Slow and Cautious
The Kremlin uses careful repression to curb the civil rights movement while avoiding broad protests. Prominent figures Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn challenge authorities as underground circles like SMOG and Current Events persist, shaping a fragile opposition through 1972.
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Kremlin
United States
West
Andrei D. Sakharov
Alexander I Solzhenitsyn
Communist Party
Stalin
Nikita
Khrushchev
Solzhenitsyn
Ivan Denisovich
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Phoenix
Samuzdat
Leningrad
All Russian Social Christian Union
Yuri Daniel
Andrei Sinyavsky
Theie
SMOG
Chronicle of
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Natalaya Gorbanovskaya
KGB
Sakharov
Valentyn Turchin
Roi Medvedev
Veche
Human Rights Committee