Soviet Russian Dissident and Human Rights Movements (1965–1991)

1. “Glasnost meeting” in Pushkin Square

   Dec 5, 1965Labels: Pushkin Square, Andrei Sinyavsky, Yuli Daniel

   • Glasnost Meeting
   • Rights Russia

2. Sinyavsky and Daniel convicted in show trial

   Feb 1, 1966Labels: Andrei Sinyavsky, Yuli Daniel, Show trial

   • Trial overview

3. Chronicle of Current Events begins samizdat reporting

   Apr 1, 1968Labels: Chronicle of, Samizdat, Underground bulletin

   • Chronicle CCE

4. Eight-person Red Square protest against Prague invasion

   Aug 25, 1968Labels: Red Square, Prague invasion, Nonviolent protest

   • Red Square 1968

5. Initiative Group appeals to the United Nations

   May 19, 1969Labels: Initiative Group, United Nations, Human rights

   • Initiative Group

6. Committee on Human Rights in the USSR formed

   Nov 4, 1970Labels: Committee on, Andrei Sakharov, Valery Chalidze

   • Committee rights
   • CCE Doc 17

7. Sakharov awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

   Oct 9, 1975Labels: Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace, Yelena Bonner

   • Nobel facts
   • History com

8. Moscow Helsinki Group founded to monitor Helsinki Accords

   May 12, 1976Labels: Moscow Helsinki, Helsinki Accords, Human rights

   • MHG overview
   • Moscow Times

9. Anti-psychiatric-abuse Working Commission established

   Jan 5, 1977Labels: Anti psychiatric, Moscow Helsinki, Psychiatric abuse

   • Working Commission

10. Sakharov sent into internal exile in Gorky

    Jan 22, 1980Labels: Andrei Sakharov, Gorky exile, Internal exile

    • AIP Exhibit
    • Sakharov bio

11. Gorbachev ends Sakharov’s exile amid glasnost

    Dec 19, 1986Labels: Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, Glasnost

    • History com

12. Memorial founded to document repression and defend rights

    Jan 26, 1989Labels: Memorial, Political repression, Archives

    • Memorial society

13. First partially competitive USSR elections held

    Mar 26, 1989Labels: Congress of, USSR elections, Televised debates

    • Election 1989
    • IPU archive

14. Soviet Union formally dissolved, ending Soviet dissident era

    Dec 26, 1991Labels: Dissolution of, Post Soviet, Dissident era

    • Dissolution