Sinyavsky–Daniel trial
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The Sinyavsky–Daniel trial (Russian: Проце́сс Синя́вского и Даниэ́ля) was a show trial in the Soviet Union against the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel in February 1966. Sinyavsky and Daniel were convicted of the offense of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda in a Moscow court for publishing their satirical writings of Soviet life abroad under the pseudonyms Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. The Sinyavsky–Daniel trial was the first Soviet show trial where writers were openly convicted solely for their literary work, provoking appeals from many Soviet intellectuals and other public figures outside the Soviet Union. The Sinyavsky–Daniel led to the Glasnost meeting, the first spontaneous public political demonstration in the Soviet Union after World War II. Sinyavsky and Daniel pled not guilty, unusual for a political charge in the Soviet Union, but were sentenced to seven and five years in labor camps, respectively.
Native name | Процесс Синявского и Даниэля |
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Date | February 10–13, 1966 (1966-02-10 – 1966-02-13) |
Location | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Cause | satires smuggled abroad and published under pen names |
Participants | Andrei Sinyavsky, Yuli Daniel |
Charges | anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda (Article 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code) |
Verdict | Sinyavsky was sentenced to seven years in strict-regime labor camp, Yuli Daniel was sentenced to five years |
The Sinyavsky-Daniel case is widely considered to mark the end of the liberal Khrushchev Thaw period and the rise of political repression in the Soviet Union under hardliner Leonid Brezhnev, and a major starting impulse for the Soviet dissident movement.[1][2]