Soviet Union

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Image of a hand drawn picture by Yuli M. Vorontsov. The picture is of a boat out at sea.

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Hand drawn image of boats drawn by Yuli M. Vorontsov.

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Fact sheet and materials related to David Azbel who was a Jewish dissident and political prisoner in the Soviet Union.

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Fact sheet and materials related to Dina Beilina, a Jewish Soviet disident imprissoned by the Soviet Union. In 1978, after seven years, Dina Beilina, considered the USSR’s leading woman Jewish refusnik, received an exit visa to Israel.

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Fact sheet and materials related to Ephim Davidovich, a Jewish prisoner of conscience.

Abstract Materials related to Boris Pénson. Known for poster art, he and his family moved to Riga, Latvia, in 1950 where he graduated from an art school. In 1967 he decided to emigrate to Israel but was refused a visa. After endless requests and refusals, he joined the Dymshits group which planned the hijacking of an aircraft to escape from the Soviet Union. In June 1970, together with other members of the group, he was arrested by the KGB at the Smolny airport. In December 1970, at the "First...

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Materials related to prisoner of conscience Mariana Tiemkin.

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Various materials, newspaper clippings and articles regarding the poet Yevgeny Yeutushenko. Yeutushenko was born in Siberia and became famous for his poem "Babi Yar," written in 1961. He was careful with his criticism of the Soviet Union and never ran afoul of the Soviet authorities. In his later years he taught at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa.

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Copies of newspaper articles related to the Pugwash Conferences.

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Materials related to ransom or diploma tax related to Refuseniks trying to get a visa to leave the Soviet Union.