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Thesis: By examining the creation, dissemination and content of "The Chronicle of Current Events" we see the embodiment of two of the core dissident values-glasnost and legality.

• General Context
• Breznev (re-freeze, rehab of Stalin)
• Embodied by S & D
• Ginzburg/protests
• Direct Context
• Meeting
• What the Chronicle was
• No Commentary
• How it was reported
• How it was published
• Other means of getting published
• Western journalists
• Radio
• This was radical-airing the dirty laundry
• Khrushchev
• Soviet realism, more socialist than realist
• Journalism at that time-Master and Margarita, bought off,
• double-speak
• Rectified by Solzhenitsyn-this is actually Soviet realism
• NEED TO TELL THE TRUTH-Obligation
• Ginzburg
• Chronicle was all about truthfulness
• In this way, it reflects general values of the dissident movement- openness, glasnost
• Similarly, in legality
• Human rights year
• Opening pages-Chadlize
• it's own legality
• Amalrik
• Ginzburg
• It wasn't libel, it was truth
• Ideas of truth and legality are inherently intertwined for this movement
• Telling the truth is legal! It is necessary
• Amalrik