Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
Arina S. and Aleksandr I. Ginzburg Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0004
Abstract
The papers consist of documents, letters, photographs, audiocassettes, and some printed material. The greater part of the collection contains materials relating to Aleksandr Ginzburg's second arrest and imprisonment (1967-1972), including almost 2,000 letters and original trial documents. The collection also includes material relating to Aleksandr Ginzburg's third arrest and imprisonment (1977-1979), documents of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, and material relating to Arina and Aleksandr...
Dates:
circa 1950s-2016
Evgeniia Ginzburg and Antonina Axenova Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0021
Abstract
The collection consists of documents, letters, photographs, and some manuscripts relating to Evgeniia Ginzburg, the author of Krutoi Marshrut, an autobiographical account of the author's experience in the Soviet labor camps. Krutoi Marshrut has been translated into English in two volumes: Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind. The collection also includes materials relating to the life...
Dates:
1914-2014; Majority of material found in 1930s-1970s
Lev F. Konson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0007
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of personal letters (1974-1980) from L.F. Konson to his cousin, Maya Konson (b. 1931) and her family, who had immigrated to Israel in 1974.
Dates:
1974 - 1980
Nicolas Miletitch Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0045
Scope and Contents
The first part of the collection includes a video archive of interviews conducted by Nicolas Miletitch with seventeen famous Soviet human rights activists and dissidents. The video archive is accompanied by full transcripts of interviews. The interviewees describe their “anti-Soviet” activities defending human rights under the totalitarian regime in the 1960s-1980s. Among topics discussed are working of the Solzhenitsyn Fund; activities of the Moscow Helsinki Watch group (1976-1980) which...
Dates:
1970 - 2020