Scientists For Sakharov, Orlov And Shcharansky Records, 1975-2010

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Scientists For Sakharov, Orlov And Shcharansky Records, 1975-2010

Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, memoranda, press releases, statements, petitions, lists, financial records, printed matter, photographs, video tapes, and sound recordings, relating to civil rights and dissident scientists in the Soviet Union, and especially to Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Orlov and Anatoly Shcharansky. Includes some papers of Morris Pripstein, chairman of the organization.

33 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 2 card file boxes, 12 videotape cassettes, 3 phonotape cassettes.; (17 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6665251

Hoover Institution Archives

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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989

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Andreĭ Dmitrievich Sakharov was born May 21, 1921, into a Moscow family of cultured and liberal intelligentsia. His father was Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, a private school physics teacher and an amateur pianist. Sakharov's mother was Ëkaterina Alekseyevna Sakharova (née Sofiano, of Greek ancestry). Although his paternal great-grandfather had been a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church and his mother had had him baptized, his father was an atheist. Sakharov married Klavdia Alekseyevn...

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Shcharansky, Anatoly

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Orlov, Yuri, 1924-

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Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky.

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Historical Note Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky (SOS), formerly known as Scientists for Shcharansky, is a private non-governmental organization created by a group of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley. It came into existence in the summer of 1978 in response to the arrests of Yuri Orlov and Natan (Anatoly) Shcharansky. There was a great deal of concern in the scientific community over the numerous violations o...