Iulii Daniel' is best remembered as the codefendant of the more celebrated and outspoken author and critic Andrei Siniavsky in one of the most sensational trials of the 1960s in the Soviet Union. Between September 1965 and February 1966 the two writers were arrested, convicted, and sentenced to forced-labor camps for publishing abroad, under pseudonyms, allegedly "anti-Soviet" literary works. The first political trial for more than a decade in the Soviet Union, "the case of Siniavsky and Daniel'" has been regarded by many critics as a cultural signpost marking the end of the Nikita Khrushchev Ottepel (Thaw) and the beginning of the Leonid Brezhnev Zastoi (Stagnation); more specifically, the trial is widely considered the opening chapter in the "dissident movement" under Brezhnev. While Daniel"s stature as a dissident icon was reaffirmed at the end of the 1980s with the publication of many of his works in the Soviet Union...