Word: amarlik
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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Adam Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center, which invited Amarlik, said yesterday the first invitation sent to Amarlik was delivered three years ago while he was still in exile. The center has not had correspondence with Amarlik, but his public statements indicate that he would like to accept Harvard's invitation...
Ulam said the center invited Amarlik to speak at Harvard, "because he is a professional historian, not because he is a dissident." He added that the center's "interest in him is as a scholar, though we welcome certain comments about the political situation in the Soviet Union...
Ulam said he is not sure of Amarlik's area of expertise but believes it to be medieval Russian history...
...addition to being refused a passport. Amarlik has been ordered to leave his home in Moscow. He has been speaking out against the Soviet government, which he said this week claims to help reunite separated families, yet forces people away from their wives...
Amalrik was arrested in 1970 for allegedly slandering the government in his book, "Will Russia Survive Until 1984?" In that book Amarlik cites the hostility between Russia's different ethnic groups and the eventual war with China as factors that will tear the USSR apart...