Word: soviet
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Valentyn Moroz, a dissident historian released last week from Soviet prison, has accepted a post with Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute...
Harvard first offered a post to Moroz, who has spent all but nine months of the past 14 years in Soviet prisons for anti-government activities, during his 20-week protest hunger strike in 1974, and repeated it yearly since then...
Moroz, along with dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg, Mark Dymshits, George P. Vins and Edward S. Kuznetsov, was exchanged last Friday for two convicted Soviet spies...
...feel I have a special stake in Harvard's posture on this issue. Now, let me refer to something my colleague Prof. Mansfield said. I don't think this is a question that necessarily should divide us along left-right lines. I think I feel very strongly about the Soviet Union as well, but I think the issue here is that because of the compostion and special character of the South African apartheid system, what goes on there resonates in a special way with American society and American values. And that's why I think we've recognized...
Along with fellow dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg, Mark Dymshits, Edward S. Kuznetsov and George P. Vins, he was exchanged last Friday in New York for Valdik A. Pnger and Rudolf P. Chernyayev, both convincted last October of spying for the Soviet Union...