The Trial Ends

Andrei Sinyaysky and Yuli Daniel, who published fiction and essays in Western periodicals under the pennames of Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak, have been sentenced to seven and five years in forced labor camps by the Russian Supreme Court. They were convicted—it is important to note —not because they allowed their manuscripts to be smuggled abroad, but because they wrote what could, in the words of the court, “be used profitably by enemies of Communism.” And what is especially...