The Treatment of Dissidents in the USSR
For several years news has been reaching the West of the detention and classification as insane of political protesters. Some of the best known are
General Grigorenko Natasha Gorbanevskaya Vladimir Bukovsky and Professor Essenin-Volpin PETER REDDAWAY , Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the London School of Economics, and editor of the book Uncensored Russia, brings forward samizdat documents and oral evidence to show that such detention is both penal in intention and illegal.
Introduced by PETER REDDAWAY Taking part
LEONARD SCHROETER , DR DAVID HIRT DR SIDNEY BLOCH
PROFESSOR F. A. JENNER
PROFESSOR A. ESSENIN-VOLPIN Readers
JILL BALCON , DAVID MARKHAM Producer MICHAEL TOTTON
(The Medvedev File , a Story of Our Time: 1 February, R4)