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any specific government measures. We only say: don't violate your own laws. While we don't engage in politics, we have no intention of becoming reconciled to the punitive measures directed against dissenters. Resistance to illegality, to the abuse of power, these are the tasks of the Initiative Group. The Initiative Group does not believe that it is attacking the state when it criticizes specific actions of the authorities.
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appeal from 17 November 1981 was smuggled out of the women's zone of the Mordovan labor camps. Calling attention to the treatment of infirm and elderly inmates, it was signed by dissident Tatyana Osipova and by Tatyana Velikanova, who described herself as "Member of the Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR".
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On 20 May 1969, without consulting the other members of the group, Pyotr Yakir and Victor Krasin passed the text to foreign correspondents and a representative of the United Nations in Moscow. Expecting to first discuss the petition and further actions, all fifteen individuals had effectively become
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We appeal to the United Nations because our protests and complaints, addressed for a number of years to the higher state and judicial offices in the Soviet Union, have received no response of any kind. The hope that our voice might be heard, that the authorities would cease the lawless acts which we
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The Initiative Group has no set program, no bylaws, and no defined structure. Each of us has the right to abstain from signing a document of the Group, and each of us has complete freedom when acting in his or her own name. The Initiative Group does not get involved in politics. We don't lobby for
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reported the origins of the event in the Gulag and the spectrum of political prisoners in the USSR. In the name of the Initiative Group, a statement was distributed explaining the origins of the action and contradicting the Soviet regime's claim that it did not have political prisoners. While the
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The Initiative Group survived long enough to pass on the baton to other emerging human rights groups in the Soviet Union during the later 1970s. The last statements by its remaining members — Grigory Podyapolsky (died 9 March 1976), Tatyana Velikanova, and Tatyana Khodorovich — were supported by
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and Tatyana Khodorovich remained at liberty. In November 1977, Khodorovich emigrated to the West. Velikanova continued to sign documents in the name of the Group for another two years, before her arrest in November 1979 marked the formal end of the Initiative Group as a public structure. A final
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endured four years of punitive psychiatry until he was released in 1976 and immigrated to the West. Pyotr Yakir and Victor Krasin began to collaborate with their interrogators. In a televised testimony, they recanted their "anti-Soviet activity" and renounced the Initiative Group as a fraudulent
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met with fellow dissidents at his apartment and proposed creating a formal "Committee in Defense of Ivan Yakhimovich". The proposal elicited mixed reactions: Some dissidents advocated for a broader human rights group, while others doubted the effectiveness of a group over informal expressions of
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Most of the members of the group were harassed and persecuted: they and family members lost their jobs, they were arrested and imprisoned, or encouraged to leave the Soviet Union altogether. By 1979, all the founding members of the Group were imprisoned, in internal exile or living abroad. The
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Between July 1972 and December 1973, the Initiative Group issued only two documents, rejecting the accusations and reporting the conditions and procedure of interrogations. In 1974, it resumed its activity with a steady stream of protests focusing on the plight of inmates of the
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Kovalev was arrested two months later, and his role in the press conference featured prominently in his interrogations. Nevertheless, the Day of the Political Prisoner became an annual event in the Gulag. In 1991 the annual event was supplanted by Russia's official
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had begun circulation, reporting violations of civil rights and judicial procedure by the Soviet government and responses to those violations by citizens across the USSR. A succession of the Chronicle's editors came from the ranks of the Initiative Group.
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In spite of these common goals, the Initiative group was marked by ideological differences. Some, like Sergei Kovalev and Anatoly Yakobson, saw their activity as strictly humanitarian and avoided actions that might be construed as treasonous or
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The main work of the group consisted in documenting abuses and preparing appeals. The letters focused on persecution of people for their convictions in the USSR, with particular attention being given to the use of
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Over the course of 1969, the Initiative Group sent four further letters to the United Nations. In each instance, it appealed for recognition and assistance with the human rights problems in the Soviet Union.
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members of a new public organization. The members agreed to continue with appeals under that name, on the conditions that no member's name would be used as co-signatory without their express consent.
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On 19 May 1969, the day of Ilya Gabai's arrest, a group of dissidents assembled at Pytor Yakir's apartment and agreed to join a proposed human rights group, modelled after the Initiative Groups of
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drafted an appeal. It enumerated several political trials of the late 1960s, in which defendants were prosecuted for exercising the right to impart information. It was addressed to the
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constantly pointed out—this hope has been exhausted. Therefore we appeal to the United Nations, believing that the defense of human rights is the sacred duty of this organization.
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In late 1968, Ivan Yakhimovich, a philologist and chairman of a collective farm in Latvia, wrote a letter to the Communist Party expressing his concern for the fate of arrested
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Initiative Group served as a precursor and model, nevertheless, to a variety of dissident organizations that took over many of its functions, among them
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undertaking whose real purpose was the deception of international public opinion. The crackdown reduced the Initiative Group to five members.
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In 1974, the Initiative Group organized a "Day of the Political Prisoner in the USSR". The action had been conceived in the Gulag by
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Yakobson, Anatoly; Yakir, Pyotr; Khodorovich, Tatyana; Podyapolskiy, Gregory; Maltsev, Yuri; et al. (21 August 1969).
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Yakobson, Anatoly; Yakir, Pyotr; Khodorovich, Tatyana; Podyapolskiy, Gregory; Maltsev, Yuri; et al. (21 August 1969).
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distribution and was picked up by shortwave radio stations, the members of the group were interrogated and some arrested.
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The members of the Initiative Group were closely linked with other dissident information networks. In April 1968, the
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Document No. 2 (30 June 1969) was a supplement to its original petition. Written by Natalya Gorbanevskaya and
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In May 1970 the Initiative Group commemorated its first anniversary with an "Open Letter" addressed to
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Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003
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Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969–2003
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When these appeals to the UN went unanswered, the Initiative Group turned to other recipients: The
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protest, and warned of the significantly harsher crackdowns organized activity would provoke under
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The Legacy of Soviet Dissent: Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia
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Document No. 3 (26 September 1969) appealed personally to United Nations Secretary General
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On 30 October 1974, the Initiative Group held a press conference at the apartment of
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Soviet Dissent: Contemporary Movements for National, Religious, and Human Rights
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lead to the arrest of Grigorenko. This was followed by the arrest of poet
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as part of an ongoing campaign for the recognition of inmates' status as
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and exhorted it to investigate human rights abuses in the Soviet Union:
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and the International Congress of Psychiatrists for cases involving
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Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union
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concerned with violations of human rights in the Soviet Union.
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Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR.
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After the founding document, the group began to use the name
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and in camps in Perm and Mordovia conducted a hunger strike.
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laws. The disputes came to a close in May, when a report by
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By March 1976, of the members of the Initiative Group only
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Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions
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The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era
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Council of Europe; Commissioner for Human Rights (2010).
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The Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era
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to threaten that they would leave the Initiative Group.
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Action Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR
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other dissidents who would become members of the new
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Human rights organizations based in the Soviet Union
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Eckel, Jan; Moyn, Samuel; Nathans, Benjamin (2014).
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The Initiative Group for the Defense of Civil Rights
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Index

Initiative Group on Human Rights in the USSR
Victor Krasin
Victor Krasin
Sergei Kovalev
Mustafa Dzhemilev
Tatyana Velikanova
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Aleksandr Lavut
Anatoly Yakobson
Leonid Plyushch
Moscow
Russia
Human rights
Russian
Soviet human rights movement
Soviet dissidents
punitive psychiatry
political prisoners
UN Commission on Human Rights
samizdat
Andrei Sakharov
Committee on Human Rights in the USSR
Moscow Helsinki Group
Commission on the Abuse of Psychiatry
samizdat
Yuri Galanskov
Alexander Ginzburg
Pyotr Grigorenko
Anti-Soviet Agitation
KGB

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