| Summary: | The staff of the Samizdat Archives (SA) created the biographical files to support their research efforts.
The selection of personalities included into these Biographical files reflects SA interest in special topics such as criticism and opposition to the Soviet regime, dissidents and persecution of dissidents, prison conditions and labor camps, ethnic minorities, religious movements, anti-Western and anti-RL propaganda.
The biographical files include clippings from Russian and Western press, news agency releases, RFE/RL research papers, transcripts of radio broadcasts, and other information that aided SA staff in ascertaining the authenticity of Samizdat documents and restoring the picture of dissident movement in the USSR. Copies of Samizdat documents were also placed in the biographical files.
There are substantial biographical files on personalities such as Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Elena Bonner.
Accruals not expected
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