FORMER USSR

(D410) Overview of Areas of Armed Conflict, 6/92, 8 pp., $3.00/£1.95
(D407) New Citizenship Laws in the Republics, 4/92, 17 pp., $3.00/£1.95
(0499) Prison Conditions in the Soviet Union, 12/91, 40 pp., ISBN 1-56432-049-9, $5.00/£2.95

“PUNISHED PEOPLES” OF THE SOVIET UNION
The Continuing Legacy of Stalin’s Deportations
Examining the present situation of ten Soviet peoples who suffered mass national deportation from their homelands under Stalin mainly to the Soviet republics of Central Asia this report shows that not one of these nationalities or its members has ever received just compensation for the harm done to it. Moreover, successive Soviet governments since Stalin have been reticent about disclosing and acknowledging the injustices or the peoples’ innocence of wrongdoing. Ostensibly, most of the deportations were carried out because these peoples had betrayed their country during the Nazi invasion. Yet the evidence suggests that, by and large, the accused nationalities had acted loyally in defending their country. Ultimately, assigning collective guilt and punishment by reason of ethnic affiliation was a great crime from which its victims still suffer.
(0391) 9/91, 84 pp., ISBN 1-56432-039-1, $7.00/£5.95

(D311) Continuing Violence in the Baltics, 6/91, 9 pp., $3.00/£1.95

GLASNOST IN JEOPARDY
Human Rights in the USSR
This report reviews human rights issues during a critical period in Soviet history when very real accomplishments under Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost were made and then reversed or seriously threatened by his efforts to restore “law and order.” Covering the period of 1990 and early 1991, Glasnost in Jeopardy describes traditional human rights concerns (civil and political rights, freedom of association, freedom of movement, due process and detention issues, as well as political participation) and also highlights ethnic and nationality problems and instances of communal violence. There is also a survey of enforcement agencies, and new executive powers. An appendix features relevant Soviet laws passed during this period, including those on the press, religion, public organizations and states of emergency.
(896) 4/91, 192 pp., ISBN 0-929692-89-6, $15.00/£12.95
 

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