Pavel Litvinov. "Political and Human Rights Tamizdat"

TAMIZDAT: PUBLISHING RUSSIAN LITERATURE IN THE COLD WAR

International Conference and Book Exhibition December 10-11, 2018

Hunter College of the City University of New York Elizabeth

Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 706 (HE)

Organized by Yasha Klots (Hunter College) and Polina Barskova (Hampshire College)

Co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute of Columbia University, with the participation of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU.

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PAVEL LITVINOV

"Political and Human Rights Tamizdat"

The talk will address publications of the most significant documents of the Soviet dissident and human rights movement in the West from the late 1960s onward. Tracing the history of political tamizdat, it will dwell in particular on the publications of Khronika Press. From its inception in the early 1970s, Khronika Press published the seminal samizdat bulletin The Chronicle of Current Events, as well as other political and non-fiction texts from the Soviet Union.

Pavel Litvinov, the grandson of Stalin’s foreign minister Maxim Litvinov and the English writer Ivy Low, was born to a family of Soviet elite. He became a dissident and human rights activist in the 1960s, in the wake of the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel (aka. Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak), who were sentenced to hard labor for publishing their “slanderous” works in tamizdat. His human rights activity culminated in the widely circulated “Appeal to World Public Opinion” (with Larisa Bogoraz), the first known address of Soviet dissidents to the West. On August 25, 1968, he was among those who walked out onto the Red Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that took place several days earlier. During these years Litvinov compiled samizdat collections of documents on the trials of Vladimir Bukovsky and others, and soon after Aleksandr Ginzburg, Yuri Galanskov, Aleksei Dobrovolsky and Vera Lashkova (published in tamizdat by Amsterdam-based Alexander Herzen Foundation). After four years of prison and internal exile, in 1974 Litvinov emigrated to the U.S., where he became the main representative and publisher of the important samizdat bulletin The Chronicle of Current Events. The Chronicle was published in New York by Khronika Press, founded and led by Valery Chalidze with Ed Kline and Pavel Litvinov. Litvinov taught physics and mathematics at Hackley School in Tarrytown, NY. He is on the board of directors of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation.

Pavel Litvinov. "Political and Human Rights Tamizdat"
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