Word: aleksandr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin also moved to stanch the flow abroad of increasingly defiant statements from the "underground" set of young intellectuals. Officials of the Soviet Foreign Ministry's press section telephoned Western correspondents to warn them against attending a news conference planned by the mother of Aleksandr Ginzburg and the wife of Yuri Galanskov, two of the four sentenced intellectuals. Both men were sent to labor camps after the trial, and the two women had invited the newsmen to hear details of what had gone on inside the courtroom...
...four-Aleksandr Ginzburg, 31, Yuri Galanskov, 29, Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Vera Lashkova, 21-were accused of editing and printing manuscripts critical of Communist life with the aid of an emigre organization devoted to the overthrow of the Soviet government. They are part of a growing underground of talented young people who, far from aspiring to join the official Soviet Writers Union, write for one another or for export, publish in typewritten secret journals, and believe that they cannot be creative without at times being critical of the government. Arrested last January, they were in jail for a year before...
...full year without even going through the formalities of declaring them guilty at a trial. Some 150 leading scientists and writers have petitioned the government to hold an open trial for Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Yuri Galanskov, 29, who circulated an underground literary journal called Phoenix, and for Aleksandr Ginzburg, 30, who had smuggled to the West the transcript of the 1966 trial of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel...
...less looked to by the new intelligentsia as their best hope for further relaxation of party control. Suslov is more of a hardliner, while Podgorny has the strongest liberal tendencies of all. All four distrust the ambitious younger leaders, at whom they recently struck a blow by removing Aleksandr Shelepin, 49, an ex-head of the secret police, from his job as Deputy Premier and Party Secretary and demoting him to an obscure and less powerful post as head of the Russian trade unions. Shelepin had surrounded himself with a group of former Komsomol (youth league) officials who are hawkish...
While looking on such heresy with a certain amount of ambiguity, the Kremlin has decided to make an example of Novy Mir. Though its poet-editor, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 57, contends that "I am a Communist in all the complexity of my soul," the party removed him from the Central Committee, recently fired two of his editors and replaced them with three safer editors. Two weeks ago, it rebuked the magazine for "a lopsided showing of reality" and "ideological errors and drawbacks...