Stories and Timelines help visualize the trajectories of people, events and movements over time and space. Together the multiple Stories and Timelines provide an array of engaging introductory views of different topics and perspectives animating the field of Soviet dissidence, nonconformism and alternative publishing in the final decades of the USSR. Embedded within the various stories and timelines are rare visual materials from archives.
Evgeny Lein (click to go to the interview in English)
Aba Taratuta (1935) (click to go to the interview in English)
Taratuta was a leading Jewish activist in Leningrad. He applied for an exit visa in 1973, and immigrated to Israel in 1988. Following immigration, Aba and his wife Ida lived in Haifa, and Taratuta directed the Association “Remember and Save,” which collected historical documentation on the Jewish movement in the Soviet Union. The interview was conducted mainly in Russian. Excerpts have been translated into English.
Arseny Roginsky (1946-2017) (click name for interview in English)
Mykola Riabchuk (1953) (click name to go to interview in English)
Born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Riabchuk graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute and the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. He was active at the center of intellectual and literary life in Lviv (later Kyiv) in the 1970-1980s.
Oleg Okhapkin (1944-2008) (click name for interview excerpts in English)
Lev Mnukhin (1938-2020) (click name for interview in English)
Lev Abramovich Mnukhin was a historian of literature and culture. He worked with the Marina Tsvetaeva museums in Bolshevo and Moscow. He was also a member of the Moscow Writers’ Union, recipient of the Marina Tsvetaeva Literary Award (2007) and the S. N. Durylin Award (2011). Lev Mnukhin was also recognized at the International Book Salon for his Biographical Dictionary of Russian Emigration in France.
Evgeny Abezgauz (click to go to the interview in English)
Евгений Леин (Лейн)
Интервью с Евгением Леином проведено Лаурой Биалис.