Committee of Concerned Scientists records, 1970-2006, bulk 1974-2005

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Series II: Refusenik Closed Case Files, 1974-2005

The Committee's efforts to help refusenik scientists are documented primarily through correspondence; CCS members updated each other on developments in each case, sent letters of protest to Soviet government officials, and corresponded with the refuseniks themselves through letters that sometimes had to be smuggled out of the USSR. These cases were closed when the refusenik's plight found resolution--usually, they were able to emigrate.

Materials are filed alphabetically by surname, with a small number of general files at the beginning of the series.



Box 19 Folder 1 Refusenik Seminars, 1974-1976


Box 19 Folder 2 Guidelines for Corresponding with Refuseniks, 1975-1983


Box 19 Folder 3-6 Lists of Refuseniks, 1984-1992, 4 folders


Box 19 Folder 7 Secrecy Accusations, 1987-1989



Box 20 Folder 1 Refusenik Profiles, circa 1990


Box 20 Folder 2 Former Refuseniks in Israel, 1994


Box 20 Folder 3 Rejected Cases, 1996


Box 20 Folder 4-5 Al'ber, Solomon, 1986-2001, 2 folders


Box 20 Folder 6 Alpert, Yakov, 1986-2001


Box 20 Folder 7-9 Begun, losif, 1982-1984, 3 folders


Box 20 Folder 10 Belostotsky, Albert, 1985-1990


Box 20 Folder 11 Berman, Dmitri, 1990-1992



Box 21 Folder 1 Brodsky, Vladimir, 1985


Box 21 Folder 2 Charny, Benjamin, 1987-1988


Box 21 Folder 3 Chernyale, Yuri, 1999


Box 21 Folder 4 Chudnovsky, Evgenii M., 1986


Box 21 Folder 5-6 Dashevsky, Vladimir, 1976-1987, 2 folders


Box 21 Folder 7 Dikii, Leonid, 1987-1988


Box 21 Folder 8 Dyadkin, Josef, 1980


Box 21 Folder 9 Eliashberg, Yakov M., 1982-1983


Box 21 Folder 10 Gems, Anatoly, 1990-1991


Box 21 Folder 11 Gimpelson, Gregory, 1979-1995



Box 22 Folder 1-2 Goldfarb, Lev, 1982-1989, 2 folders


Box 22 Folder 3 Goldfarb, Yuri, 1976-1994


Box 22 Folder 4-6 Ioffe, Alexander, 1986-1987, 3 folders


Box 22 Folder 7 Irlin, losif, 1986



Box 23 Folder 1-3 Irlin, losif, 1986, 3 folders


Box 23 Folder 4-5 Kagan, Abram, 1977-1988, 2 folders


Box 23 Folder 6 Katz, Semion, 1987-1990


Box 23 Folder 7 Kaufman, Isaak, 1996-1998



Box 24 Folder 1-6 Kazachkov, Mikhail, 1989-1990, 6 folders



Box 25 Folder 1-5 Khachaturyan, Armen, 1981-1984, 5 folders


Box 25 Folder 6-7 Kislik, Vladimir, 1977-1979, 2 folders



Box 26 Folder 1-5 Kislik, Vladimir, 1979-1984, 5 folders


Box 26 Folder 6 Kovalev, Sergei, 1994-1996


Box 26 Folder 7 Laikhtman, Boris and David, 1982-1987


Box 26 Folder 8 Lainer, Bronislav, 1974-1976



Box 27 Folder 1-4 Lein, Eugeny and Irene, 1981-1986, 4 folders


Box 27 Folder 5 Lemer, Aleksandr, 1990


Box 27 Folder 6 Lifschitz, Vladimir, 1985


Box 27 Folder 7 Lozansky, Tanya, 1978-1984


Box 27 Folder 8-9 Lurie, Emmanuel, 1980-1989



Box 28 Folder 1 Magarshak, Yuri, 1987-1988


Box 28 Folder 2 Margolin, Aleksei, 1983-1985


Box 28 Folder 3 Marmov, Mikall, 1988


Box 28 Folder 4-6 Matlina, Erlena, 1983-1989, 3 folders


Box 28 Folder 7-11 Meiman, Naum, 1977-1981, 6 folders



Box 29 Folder 1-6 Meiman, Naum, 1981-1987, 6 folders


Box 29 Folder 7 Mikhaiev, David, 1989-1990



Box 30 Folder 1-7 Nadgorny, Edward and Nina, 7 folders


Box 30 Folder 8 Nashpitz, Mark, 1975-1981


Box 30 Folder 9 Orlov, Yuri, 1982-1983



Box 31 Folder 1-5 Orlov, Yuri, 1982-1987, 5 folders


Box 31 Folder 6-8 Ozernoy, Leonid, 1982-1986, 3 folders



Box 32 Folder 1-2 Ozernoy, Leonid, 1985-1986, 2 folders


Box 32 Folder 3-4 Pambuccian, Victor, 1988-1996, 2 folders


Box 32 Folder 5-8 Paritsky, Alexander, 1979-1982, 4 folders



Box 33 Folder 1-4 Paritsky, Alexander, 1982-1988, 4 folders


Box 33 Folder 5 Peltier, Leonard, 1984-1985


Box 33 Folder 6 Pilmenstein, Joseph, 1987-1990


Box 33 Folder 7 Polyak, Roman, 1984-1998


Box 33 Folder 8-10 Raben, Anatoly, 1983-1990, 3 folders


Box 33 Folder 11 Raiz, Vladimir, 1976-1981



Box 34 Folder 1-2 Raiz, Vladimir, 1988-1990, 2 folders


Box 34 Folder 3 Roginsky, Joseph, 1991


Box 34 Folder 4 Romaszewski, Zbigniew, 1984


Box 34 Folder 5-9 Rosenstein, Gregory, 1979-1987, 5 folders


Box 34 Folder 10 Rosu, Radu, 1985-1986



Box 35 Folder 1-2 Ruta, loan, 1984-1987, 2 folders


Box 35 Folder 3-6 Sarkharov, Andrei, 1973-1981, 4 folders



Box 36 Folder 1-6 Sarkharov, Andrei, 1981-1984, 6 folders



Box 37 Folder 1-3 Sarkharov, Andrei, 1984-2000, 3 folders


Box 37 Folder 4 Severinovsky, Stalik, 1986


Box 37 Folder 5 Shulemovich, Vladimir, 1986-1989


Box 37 Folder 6 Shtutman, Grigory, 1998


Box 37 Folder 7 Sofman, Lev, 1989


Box 37 Folder 8 Soyfer, Valery, 1994


Box 37 Folder 9 Stonov, Leonid, 1988-1989


Box 37 Folder 10 Supin, Gregory, 1988


Box 37 Folder 11 Tankhilevich, Boris, 1984



Box 38 Folder 1 Tarnopolsky, Yuri, 1984-1999


Box 38 Folder 2 Tsirelson, Boris, 1988-1989


Box 38 Folder 3 Tsvikin, Vladimir


Box 38 Folder 4-9 Uspenskii, Igor and Inna, 1981-1992, 6 folders



Box 39 Folder 1-4 Uspenskii, Igor and Inna, 1988-1990, 4 folders


Box 39 Folder 5 Voronkevich, Irina, 1989


Box 39 Folder 6 Weisfeiler, Boris, 1986


Box 39 Folder 7 Yashchin, Emanuel, 1983-1987


Box 39 Folder 8 Zabusky, Norman, 1984-1988


Box 39 Folder 9 Zaretsky, Joseph, 1986-1987


Box 39 Folder 10 Zelichonok, Roald, 1984-1985



Box 40 Folder 1-3 Zelichonok, Roald, 1985-1989, 3 folders


Box 40 Folder 4 Zieman, Yuri, 1988-1990


Box 40 Folder 5 Zunshain, Zakhar