The Case of Tertz-Sinyavski

Last October Western correspondents reported from Moscow that two Soviet writers, Andrei Sinyayski and Yuli Daniel, had been arrested and that they would be charged under article 70 of the Soviet Criminal Code with “dissemination of anti-Soviet propaganda.” Most of the reports suggested, more specifically, that the two men had been arrested for publishing their manuscripts abroad under the pseudonyms “Abram Tertz” and “Nikolai Arzhak.” On November 11 Jerzy ...