Expelled along with Kopelev, who was identified in the March 26 report in the New York Times as the author of a book on the German playwright Bertolt Brecht and a former inmate of a Stalinist prison camp, was Boris A. Zolotukhin, the lawyer for Aleksandr Ginzburg.
The other four were given in the Times report as Boris G. Birger, a painter; Boris Shragin, a specialist in aesthetics; Yuri Koryakov, a literary figure; and Iyudmilla Alekseyevna, an editor in the Nauka publishing house.
Since Communist party membership is a prerequisite for most of the better professional positions in the Soviet