Translation

Question 1

What texts did Manya Harari translate? (2)

Answer 1

Dr Zhivago (Pasternak)
Into the Whirlwind (Ginzburg)

Question 2

Marjorie Farquaharson (2)

Answer 2

Soviet researcher for Amnesty
Set up Amnesty’s Moscow office

Question 3

Michael Scammell texts translated (2)

Answer 3

To Build a Castle (Bukovsky)
From Under the Rubble (Solzhenitsyn)

Question 4

Challenges (3)

Answer 4

How do we study these characters?
Source material in the background
Not forthcoming

Question 5

Manya Harari’s memoirs (2)

Answer 5

Snapshot into Soviet life post-Stalin period. Talks about religion, art etc
Significantly hears from a woman about thousands of prisoners still incarcerated in a Siberian prison camp

Question 6

Observations from Sheila Fitzpatrick’s ‘A Spy in the Archives’ (2)

Answer 6

Western students in the USSR often viewed as spies
Stalin’s legacy persisted, particularly in Georgia

Question 7

Who did Marjorie Farquaharson draw attention to the plight of?

Answer 7

Irina Rashtushinskaya

Question 8

Irina Rashtushinskaya

Answer 8

Russian poet, arrested for anti-Soviet agitation