Please note that the following seminar will begin at 4:00 p.m. instead
of 4:15:
Monday,
February 26
Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights
“They Chose Freedom”
Documentary film and discussion
Vladimir Kara Murza, Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief, TRVi Television
Network;
Cochair of the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko Joint Mission in the
U.S.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Narrated primarily
through interviews with prominent Russian dissidents, They Chose
Freedom
(2005) tells the story of the Soviet dissident movement from its
emergence in
the late 1950s until the 1990s. Public readings of banned poetry on
Mayakovsky
Square, the development of samizdat, the 1965 and 1968 opposition
demonstrations in Moscow, and the harsh repressions unleashed against
dissidents by Communist authorities are all reflected in the film. It
also
focuses on events leading to the collapse of Soviet dictatorship and
the
democratic revolution of August 1991, and the addresses the future of
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