The White Book on the Sinjavskii-Daniel case

The White Book on the Siniavskii-Daniėl’ case was written and edited clandestinely by the dissident intellectual Aleksandr Ginzburg in the years 1965-1966, during and right after the dramatic judicial events involving the writers Iulii Daniėl’ and Andrei Siniavskii. The writers were accused, tried and sentenced to prison for having published a number of works abroad, under the pseudonyms Nikolai Arzhak and Abram Terts, which were considered to be in conflict with the aesthetic doctrines of socialist realism and tainted with anti-Soviet propaganda.