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Alexander Daniel
(b.1951) worked on a number of samizdat magazines, such as Chronicle of Current Affairs, during the the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1989, he has been a member of the board of directors of the human rights organisation Memorial. He is responsible for Memorial's publications and also serves as director of the programme "History of Dissidents in the USSR". He has published numerous articles in both Russian and international magazines on the history of the human rights movement in Russia as well as on other human rights issues. He served as an advisor on the Human Rights Committee for the President of the Soviet Union from 1990-93.
Eurozine Articles
1968 in Moscow
A beginning
The Russian dissident movement was born when a protest against the trial of system critical writers was broadcasted on western radio on 11 January 1968, writes Aleksander Daniel. "To appeal to world public opinion, to the 'enemies', was equivalent to treason, to betrayal of the homeland." [more]
