Item COLD WAR 27/43 - Transcript of interview with Russian-born artist Ernst Neizvestny, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Ernst Neizvestny, Soviet artist and emigré, relating to the purges in the USSR on the orders of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 1935-1938; the impact of the Great Patriotic War on the USSR, 1941-1945; the wartime alliance between the USSR, the USA and the UK, 1941-1945; the death of Stalin, Mar 1953; the denunciation by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; Neizvestny's commission to sculpt Khrushchev's memorial, [1971]; the Soviet inspired initiative of the European Agreement on Security and Co-operation (Helsinki accords), Helsinki, Finland, 30 Jul-1 Aug 1975; the activities of the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopastny, the Soviet Committee for State Security) against Neizvestny, [1970-1976]. 21pp