Skip to main content

Political prisoners -- Soviet Union

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Harvey Fireside papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-95-4
Scope and Contents The Harvey Fireside papers are concerned with the psychiatric abuse of Soviet dissidents between 1979 and 1987. The papers document the efforts of American psychiatrists, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Committee on Abuse of Psychiatry, Amnesty International, the United Nations, and other international organizations, to stop this abuse in the Soviet Union. In addition, there is mention of similar cases in South Africa, Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina.In particular, as a...
Dates: 1970 - 1987

Loren Roth papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-2021-01
Scope and Contents This collection is divided into two series. The first series, "abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists", consists of subject files compiled by Dr. Loren Roth, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. They are evidence of Dr. Roth's efforts to stop the abuse of psychiatry and psychiatrists for political reasons, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. The subject files contain correspondence, articles, reports, evaluations, meeting minutes, agendas, planning materials,...
Dates: 1950 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1974 - 2022

Richard J. Bonnie papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-81-9
Scope and Contents This collection includes Richard Bonnie's professional, legal, and research papers, covering the years from approximately 1969 through 2016. This collection includes drug related issues, decriminalization of marijuana and insanity defense; extra teaching activities at the University of Virginia; case files on death row inmates; professional files related to issues of mental competency; visit to the Soviet Union as member of US delegation invited to investigated the political...
Dates: 1913 - 2016