Interviews on ethics, conscience and dissent in the USSR (Беседы об этике, совести и инакомыслии в СССР)

Interviews on ethics, conscience and dissent in the USSR Беседы об этике, совести и инакомыслии в СССР These interviews, all of them in Russian, were conducted by Philip Boobbyer for a research project on the role of ‘conscience’ in shaping opinion and undermining communism in the late Soviet era. They were done in the years 1994-2003 in a range of locations. Material from the interviews was first used by Boobbyer in his journal article, 'Truth-telling, conscience and dissent in late Soviet Russia: Evidence from oral histories', European History Quarterly 30 (2000), 553-585. Material was then used in his book Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia (London: Routledge, 2005), which was published in Russian as Sovest’, dissidentstvo i reformy v Sovetskoi Rossii (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2010). The interviews, which were conducted in a semi-structured way, explored the ethical thinking and experiences of human rights activists, intellectuals and Party reformers, and the ways in which moral and spiritual motivations were present in their ideas and activities. List of interviews For brief biographical details about the people interviewed, as well as information on transcripts and summaries, see 'Summary of interviews' in the 'Documentation' section. Dissidents, activists, prisoners (total 16) Ludmila Alekseyeva (1927-2018), Moscow, April 2003 Larisa Bogoraz (1926-2004) Moscow, April 1996 Vladimir Bukovsky (1942-2019), Cambridge, June 1995 Alexander Ginzburg (1936-2002), Paris, March 1997 Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936-2013), Paris, March 1997 Vyacheslav Igrunov (1948-), Copenhagen, May 1995 Veniamin Joffe (1938-2002), St Petersburg, April 1996 Tatyana Khodorovich (1921-2015), Paris, March 1997 Sergei Kovalev (1930-2021), Moscow, April 1999 Malva Landa (1918-2019), Moscow, April 1998 Andrei Mironov (1954-2014), Caux-sur-Montreux, July 1995 Valerya Novodvorskaya (1950-2014), Moscow, April 2003 Leonid Plyushch (1938-2015), Paris, March 1997 Grigory Pomerants (1918-2013), Moscow, April 1998 Vladimir Poresh (1949-2023), St Petersburg, April 1996 Tatyana Velikanova (1932-2002), Moscow, January 1998 Intellectuals, cultural figures (total 9) German Andreev (Fein) (1929-), Paris, March 1997 Ernest Ametistov (1934-1998), Caux-sur-Montreux, August 1994 Irina Baskin (1938-), Paris, March 1997 Yuri Karyakin (1930-2011), Moscow, April 1999 Lev Krugly (1931-2011), Paris, March 1997 Zoya Maslennikova (1923-2008), Moscow, April 1996 Yuri Lyubimov (1917-2014), Moscow, April 2003 Mikhail Rozov (1930-2011), Moscow, April 1996 Yuli Shreider (1927-1998), Moscow, April 1996 Reformers, advisors (total 6) Vadim Bakatin (1937-2022), Moscow, March 2003 Nail' Bikennin (1931-2007), Moscow, April 2003 Anatoly Krasikov (1931-2020), Moscow, April 1998 Vadim Medvedev (1929-), Moscow, March 2003 Alexander Tsipko (1941-), Moscow, January 1998 Alexander Yakovlev (1923-2005), Moscow, March 2003