Who'd like to speak?: A literary debate in Siberia

• Published in: Index on Censorship
• Main Authors: Meilanov, Vazif, Sumner, S. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 1988
• Subjects: Russkaya; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064228808534533; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064228808534533

Vazif Meilanov (b. 1938), a mathematician and author of the samizdat book In the Margins of Soviet Newspapers, was arrested in January 1980 for demonstrating in defence of the exiled physicist Andrei Sakharov. Meilanov was sentenced to 7 years in a ‘strict regime’ camp and 2 years in exile for ‘anti...