Memorial, Moscow, seeking collaborators

[Ann Komaromi]

COLLABORATION WITH MEMORIAL, MOSCOW
THE HISTORY OF THE USSR AND THE US:
“CHRONICLE” PROJECT AND CARTER PROJECT

The Research and Education Center “Memorial” (Moscow) is currently 
offering opportunities for collaboration with its program “The History of 
Dissent in the USSR, 1954-1987”. 

Memorial’s massive project to annotate the uncensored human rights 
bulletin A CHRONICLE OF CURRENT EVENTS (KHRONIKA TEKUSHCHIKH 
SOBYTII) is nearing completion. Assistance is needed to mount the 
edition on Wikipedia. In addition, Memorial seeks help translating 
documents from Russian to English and from English to Russian for an 
electronic resource entitled, “U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Human 
Rights in the USSR,” based on documents from the National Security 
Archive in Washington, D.C.

Collaboration is offered on a volunteer basis. It is expected that 
students at undergraduate and graduate levels, with varying degrees of 
Russian fluency, could contribute meaningfully to these projects. 
Participants will gain knowledge of primary historical materials and 
acquaintance with the work of a highly respected Russian organization 
specializing in historical research and human rights. It is possible to 
pursue particular topics including national issues, religious persecution 
in the USSR, Soviet Jewry, Nonconformist Art, and many more.

For more information, see announcements posted in Russian and 
English: 
http://memo-projects.livejournal.com/tag/chronicle%20of%20current%
20events  (about the Chronicle project, Russian text with English 
translation),  
http://memo-projects.livejournal.com/3236.html  (about Soviet Jewry, 
Russian text), http://www.memo.ru/2010/07/05/carter.htm  (Russian 
text, partial English translation at
http://memo-projects.livejournal.com/602.html )   

Please contact at Memorial, Andrei Bobrov, bav1978 at yandex.ru  or 
memo.projects at gmail.com , regarding the Chronicle project; 
and Kirill Kozhanov, kozhanov.kirill at gmail.com , regarding the Carter 
project;
or Dr. Ann Komaromi, University of Toronto, a.komaromi at utoronto.ca , 
for additional information.

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