The Ideology of Analytic Art and the Principle of Craftedness

by Pavel FILONOV (1883-1941) “Painting is the universally intelligible language of the artist.” A picture suggests a single conclusion, which … More

Alexander Nekrich, “Rewriting History” (1980)

In 1965 a ten-volume edition of The History of the World, prepared by the Humanities Faculties of the Soviet Academy … More

by Marjorie FARQUHARSON (1980) The first feminist journal has appeared unofficially in the Soviet Union. It is called Zhenshchina i … More

Valery Abramkin, who has died at 66, was a quiet and remarkably consistent person. In 1980 he went on a … More

Osip MANDELSTAM The Egyptian Persuasion dates from the period 1926-1931 when Mandelstam found he was unable to write verse and … More

With the rights activist (and astrophysicist) in the early 1980s, at a human rights gathering, in Portugal perhaps. Marjorie wrote … More

Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … More

Sergei AVERINTSEV (1937-2004) The challenge of how to “overcome” a totalitarian past should face every nation with experience of one … More

by Marjorie FARQUHARSON, 1991-1992 The diary Marjorie kept as she was establishing Amnesty International’s Office in Moscow, a unique venture … More

“Amnesty group arrives on unprecedented Soviet tour”, UPI 22 March 1989 “Tajikistan: Amnesty Report Attacks Cruel, Random Use Of Death … More

By Ian MARTIN (2018) It was my privilege to work with a great group of committed people at the International … More

For over 25 years, Kronid Lyubarsky was one of the driving forces behind the human rights movement in Russia. His … More

By Marjorie FARQUHARSON Well, I really liked Igor Anatolievich. He could read a cloud formation as clearly as the expression … More

When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in … More