| Collection | University of Kent Archive |
| Description | Interview with Tatiana Velikanova by Philip Boobbyer.
Tatiana Velikanova was a mathematician. Her husband, Konstantin Babitsky, was involved in the demonstration on Red Square on 25 August 1968, and she became active in the dissident movement after that. She was a founder member of the Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights in the USSR. She played an important organisational role in the dissident movement, notably as editor of the Chronicle of Current Events for much of its existence (1968-83).
Place and date of interview: Moscow, January 1998
The interview runs to 47:25 on side A and 39:23 on side B. |
| Admin history | Created by Philip Boobbyer in the process of his research in 1996/97. Interviews were conducted in Moscow and Paris.
Philip contacted Special Collections and Archives in 2022 to request digitisation of the tapes and to offer digital copies for the University of Kent archive. This was in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Additional tapes were digitised in late 2022 and early 2023 as part of Dr Boobbyer's research project on 'Interviews on conscience and Soviet dissent' with the charitable trust Anglo-Nordic Productions Trust..
Digital audio files will be made publically available by Philip using Soundcloud (link to be added to this record when live). |