Larisa Bogoraz (1926-2004) Interview with Larisa Bogoraz by Philip Boobbyer. Larisa Bogoraz was born in Kharkiv, to a family loyal to the Communist Party. She was an active Komsomol member in her youth. She started to question the Soviet regime in the 1950s. She participated in the demonstration on Red Square against the invasion of Czechoslovakia on 25 August 1968, after which she was sentenced to four years in internal exile in Siberia. She remained active in human rights work throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Place and date of interview: Moscow, April 1996 The interview runs to 47:17 on side A (catalogue reference UKA/STA/2/BOO/1/A), and 1:28 on side B (catalogue reference UKA/STA/2/BOO/1/B). April 1996