# Sinyavsky-Daniel trial (1966)

URL: https://history-russia.com/timeline/1966-sinyavsky-daniel-trial
Categories: main-event

Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were sentenced to labour camps for publishing satirical works abroad. Protests against the trial marked the start of the Soviet dissident movement. Samizdat publications spread in the following years. The trial ended the Thaw in cultural policy.

## Why it matters
The trial ended the Thaw in cultural policy.

Ruler at the time: [Leonid Brezhnev](https://history-russia.com/rulers/leonid-brezhnev)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia — Sinyavsky–Daniel trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinyavsky–Daniel_trial)
- [Wikipedia — Soviet dissidents](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_dissidents)
- [Wikipedia — Era of Stagnation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Stagnation)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Sinyavsky-Daniel trial](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Sinyavsky-Daniel+trial)
- [Wikipedia — Timeline of Russian history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_history)