• Thumbnail for Andrei Monastyrski
    М.: НЛО, 2007. 336 стр. [The World of Poetry, with a preface by Dmitri Prigov and the author’s afterword. Moscow, NLO, 2007. 336 pp.] [[Служебная:Источники...
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    Plyushch Alexandr Podrabinek Grigory Pomerants Vladimir Pribylovsky Dmitri Prigov Anatoly Pristavkin Boris Pustyntsev Irina Ratushinskaya Eliyahu Rips Arseny...
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    being the "organizer and factual leader of an anti-Soviet nationalistic group," who led an "active struggle against Soviet power" and the party "on the...
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    Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, Anna Alchuk and Timur Kibirov (also novelist and literary scholar Viktor Yerofeyev), and the members of the Lianosovo group of...
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  • Natanovich Ginzburg (a Jewish pharmacist) and Revekka Markovna Ginzburg. The family moved to Kazan in 1909. In 1920, she began to study social sciences at Kazan...
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  • Moskauer Avantgarde: Grisha Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitri Prigov, Oleg Vassiliev, Andy Jllien Gallery, Zurich 2002 Malevich, Cinema and Beyond...
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    Kuryokhin. Prizrak Kommunisma. Solyd Records DK. FAMILY of the FLOWER KINGS. SS Records TRI-O and one D.A.Prigov. HOR Records Sergey Letov, Alexei Borisov,...
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    recognition. Bulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on May 9, 1924, into a family of communists who had come from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, to study...
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    among the first group of women in the Soviet Union to complete training as a medical doctor, and her father was an attorney. The family did not practice...
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  • Soviet dissidents (category Soviet opposition groups)
    the mid-1960s until the Fall of Communism. It was used to refer to small groups of marginalized intellectuals whose challenges, from modest to radical to...
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    following me, and our whole group. It wasn’t like it is here at an American university—we were all one group in our class, a group of about 30 which existed...
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    state" and sold tens of millions of copies. Solzhenitsyn was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s and remained...
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  • Thumbnail for Eduard Limonov
    career and his mother was a homemaker. In the early years of his life his family moved to Kharkov in the Ukrainian SSR, where Limonov grew up. He studied...
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    Vasyl Ovsienko (category Ukrainian Helsinki Group)
    Ukrainian Helsinki Group and founded the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. Vasyl Vasyliovych Ovsienko was born into a peasant family on 8 April 1949...
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  • Thumbnail for Sylva Zalmanson
    2008 (2008) Born in Siberia in 1944 to a middle-class Jewish family from Riga. The family escaped the Nazis and returned to Riga in 1945, after the Soviets...
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  • Thumbnail for Nikolai Berdyaev
    Nikolai Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long line of Russian...
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    Yuri Orlov (category Moscow Helsinki Group)
    dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group. He was declared a prisoner of conscience...
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  • Thumbnail for Pitirim Sorokin
    showing that his selected group of children with high IQs did about as well as a random group of children selected from similar family backgrounds would have...
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  • Thumbnail for Konstantin Paustovsky
    romantic and Protestant”. His mother came from the family of Polish intelligentsia. Paustovsky's family were of Zaporozhian Cossack, Turkish and Polish origin...
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  • Thumbnail for Zviad Gamsakhurdia
    imprisoned numerous times. Gamsakhurdia co-founded the Georgian Helsinki Group, which sought to bring attention to human rights violations in the Soviet...
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  • Thumbnail for Boris Kagarlitsky
    the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to Kagarlitsky, his paternal family descends from Ilya Kagarlitsky, a successful Jewish businessman from the...
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  • Thumbnail for Igor Shafarevich
    Shafarevich's theorem on solvable Galois groups, giving the realization of every finite solvable group as a Galois group over the rationals. Another development...
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  • Thumbnail for Yurii Shukhevych
    Yurii Shukhevych (category Shukhevych family)
    was a Ukrainian far-right politician. A member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, he was a political prisoner and the son of Roman Shukhevych. He was a long-serving...
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  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Bukovsky
    the Republic of Bashkortostan in the Russian Federation), to which his family was evacuated during World War II. After the war he and his parents returned...
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  • Thumbnail for Joseph Brodsky
    born into a Russian Jewish family in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). A descendant of a prominent and ancient rabbinic family, Schorr (Shor) his direct...
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  • Thumbnail for Yuliy Kim
    1938, in which his father was executed and his mother was sentenced as a "family member of a traitor of the Motherland" to five years in a labor camp and...
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    for the purposes of obstructing the fundamental human rights of certain groups and individuals in a society. It entails the exculpation and committal of...
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    Natan Sharansky (category Moscow Helsinki Group)
    refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s. Sharansky was born into a Jewish family on (1948-01-20)20 January 1948 in the city of Stalino (now Donetsk) in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Mustafa Dzhemilev
    at the time under Nazi occupation. He was only six months old when his family, with the rest of the Crimean Tatar population, was deported by Soviet authorities...
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  • Thumbnail for Andrei Sakharov
    Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was born in Moscow on 21 May 1921, to a Russian family. His father, Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, was a physics professor at the Second...
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