Natalia Gorbanevskaya

[Helena Goscilo]

*    Dear Colleagues,*



*    FYI.*



*Natalia Gorbanevskaya, 1936-2013 *

29 November 2013

*On November 29, Natalia Gorbanevskaya—poet, translator, human rights
activist and participant of the 1968 Red Square demonstration—died in
Paris. She died in her sleep. She was 77.*

Natalia Gorbanevskaya, a philologist, poet and translator, was one of the
co-founders of the human rights movement in the USSR and the first editor
of the *Chronicle of Current Events*, a samizdat news publication. On
August 25, 1968, she participated in a demonstration on Moscow’s Red Square
to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Between 1970 and 1972 she
was subjected to forced psychiatric “treatment” by the Soviet authorities.

Since 1975 she has lived in France, working at *Kontinent* magazine, Radio
Liberty, *La Pensée russe* newspaper, and *New Poland* journal. She
remained active in the human rights movement, frequently visited Moscow,
and has served on the independent public commission of inquiry into the May
6, 2012 events on Bolotnaya Square.

Natalia Gorbanevskaya was one of the participants of *They Chose Freedom
<http://imrussia.org/en/project/534-they-chose-freedom-the-story-of-soviet-dissidents>*,
a documentary on dissent in the Soviet Union that was translated into
English by the Institute of Modern Russia.
-- 
Helena Goscilo - ON LEAVE THIS YEAR (2013-2014)
Professor
DSEELC/Dept. of Slavic & East European Languages & Cultures
Affiliate Faculty in Comparative Studies, Film, Folklore, Popular Culture,
WGSS
OSU


Motto:
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole
book." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it,
as well as contributing to the need for it." Alfred Hitchcock

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