I. Introduction -- II. Founding of the Moscow Helsinki Group -- III. Purpose -- IV. Documents and work methods -- V. Founding members of the Moscow Helsinki Group -- VI. Other Helsinki and affiliated groups in the USSR -- VII. First arrests within the Moscow Helsinki Group -- VIII. The trial of Yury Orlov -- IX. Emigrration of Moscow Helsinki Group members -- X. New mwmbers, new arrests -- XI. Disbanding of the Moscow Helsinki Group -- XII. Where are they now? -- XIII. Human rights monitoring in the 1980s -- XIV. Future of the Helsinki Process -- XV. The Helsinki Movement abroad -- Appendix A. Arrests and trials -- Appendix B. The Moscow Helsinki Monitors biographies.