Sergei Kovalev Collection
Mss.Ms.Coll.35
Series I. Paul F. Cranefield material | 1976-1990 | 0.5 lin. feet | ||
Cranefield's files are a diverse assemblage of correspondence, circular letters, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other miscellaneous materials pertaining to Paul Cranefield's activities on behalf of Sergei Kovalev and, to a lesser degree, other prisoners of conscience. In addition to documenting Cranefield's numerous letters to professional journals, colleagues, public officials, and the media, the series includes extracts of letters from Kovalev's wife, Lusya Boitsova, and from other concerned Russians that appear to have circulated widely among supporters of the dissidents, and numerous circular letters conveying news of Kovalev's precarious health in prison. The clippings from newspapers and journals provides a gauge of public and professional response to Kovalev's imprisonment. One of the best documented parts of the Cranefield series is the 1979 effort to arrange a boycott of the Comparative Electrocardiology meeting held at Syktyvkar and the XX International Symposium on Electrocardiology held at Yalta. Responses to the call for boycott by Cranefield and Weidmann were predominantly positive, however some colleagues felt that such action would only worsen Kovalev's case, while others felt that politics should not intervene. The Cranefield files are arranged chronologically by year. | ||||
Chronological file | 1976 | 12 items | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1977 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1978 | 29 items | Box 1 | |
Includes correspondence with Rosa Last, Petitions, etc. | ||||
Chronological file | 1979 | 4 folders | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1980 | 8 items | Box 1 | |
Includes updated biography of Kovalev. | ||||
Chronological file | 1981 | 34 items | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1982 | 10 items | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1983 | 8 items | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1984 | 12 items | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1987 | 2 items | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1989 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Chronological file | 1990 | 2 items | Box 1 | |
Series II. Silvio Weidmann material | 1974-1990 | 0.5 lin. feet | ||
Silvio Wedimann's files includes valuable documentation of the European response to Kovalev's arrest and imprisonment, and contain the same scope and range of materials as Series I. The Weidmann files are arranged topically, in essentially chronological order. The collection begins with some biographical material on Kovalev and photographs, followed by material on Kovalev's arrest, a series of petititons from European cardiac electrophysiologists, files on Kovalev's imprisonment, and groups of correspondence with Rosa Last and Amnesty International. The arrangement reflects the order of the collection as received from the donor. | ||||
Photographs, bibliography, biography | n.d. | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 1 | |
Includes "A survey of the scientific activity of S. A. Kovalev." | ||||
Material on Kovalev's arrest | 1974-1975 | 15 items | Box 2: folder 2 | |
Includes, inter alia, letters from Yuri Yakobson and Je. Rivkin to Weidmann, 1974, from Yuri Golfond to the New York Times, Mar. 27, 1975, and petition of electrocardiologists to V. Kotelnikov, Pres. Of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, July 15, 1975. | ||||
Replies to Weidmann | 1975-1979 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 2a | |
Includes 47 letters from fellow scientists, mostly offering support for Kovalev. | ||||
European cardiac electrophysio.
Petitions to Anatolii Alexandrov, President of the Akademia Nauk SSR, and Leonid Brezhnev | 1978 Dec. 19-21 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 3 | |
Petitions denouncing the arrest of Kovalev. | ||||
European cardiac electrophysio.
Petition to Anatolii Alexandrov | 1979 Nov. 20 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 4 | |
Petition denouncing the imprisonment of Kovalev. | ||||
European cardiac electrophysio.
Petition to Sergei Kovalev | 1980 Oct. 17 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 5 | |
Petition denouncing the imprisonment of Kovalev. | ||||
European cardiac electrophysio.
Petition to Leonid Brezhnev | 1981 Oct. 12 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 6 | |
Petition denouncing the imprisonment of Kovalev. | ||||
European Cardiology Society.
Petition to Prokuratura at Moscow and Magadan | 1982 Sept. 27 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 7 | |
Petition denouncing the imprisonment of Kovalev. | ||||
European Cardiology Society.
Petition to Prokuratura at Moscow and Magadan | 1983 Dec. 10 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 8 | |
Petition denouncing the imprisonment of Kovalev. | ||||
European Cardiology Society.
Petition to Prokuratura at Moscow and Magadan | 1984 Sept. 18 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 9 | |
Petition denouncing the imprisonment of Kovalev. | ||||
Updates on Kovalev | 1976-1980 | 10 items | Box 2: folder 10 | |
Includes extracts from letter of Elena Sakharov, July 1976, and from co-detainee Wolf Zalmanson, June 3, 1979 . | ||||
Christophol Prison | 1980-1982 | 13 items | Box 2: folder 11 | |
Internal exile | 1980-1982 | 6 items | Box 2: folder 12 | |
Material concerning Kovalev's release | 1983-1989 | 8 items | Box 2: folder 13 | |
Kovalev, Ivan | 1978-1988 | 11 items | Box 2: folder 14 | |
Soviet boycott | 1976-1980 | 54 items | Box 2: folder 15 | |
Includes invitation from M. Roshchevsky to attend the National Symposium on Comparative Electrocardiology after the International Symposium in Yalta, 1979; clippings from newspapers and magazines on Russian political prisoners. | ||||
Soviet boycott, colleagues' responses | 1979 | 45 items | Box 2: folder 15a | |
Last, Rosa | 1979-1986 | 26 items | Box 2: folder 16 | |
United States institutions | 1975-1986 | 34 items | Box 2: folder 17 | |
Amnesty International | 1976-1990 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 18a | |
Miscellaneous | 1976-1981 | 1 folder | Box 2: folder 17 |