Lev Razgon

Lew Emmanuilovich Rasgon (Russian Лев Эммануилович Разгон, scientific transliteration Lew Emmanuilovič Razgon ); (Born 19 Märzjul / April 1 1908greg in Gorky (now Horki ), Mogilev Oblast, Belarus, .. † September 8, 1999 in Moscow) was a Russian writer.

Biography

Rasgon was born into a working class family. 1922 moved his family to Moscow. After school he worked as a librarian in a children's library.

In 1932 he completed his studies in history at the State Pedagogical Institute in Moscow and then worked in a children's book publishing as an editor. In April 1938 he was arrested and spent 17 years in labor camps of the Gulag. In 1955, he was released.

He then worked again in a children's book publishing as a literary scholar of children's literature. He published in 1978 his book " The Sixth Station" ( Шестая станция ), a retrospective of his youth, and also books on major Russian scholars.

The early seventies, he began to write about the years of his imprisonment, without ever expecting a publication. First excerpts appeared only under Gorbachev in the Soviet magazines, so 1987 " The wife of the president " ( Жена президента ) in the weekly magazine Ogonek. His book about his prison time "Nothing but the truth " ( Непридуманное ) was published in 1988 and made him well known.

Together with Solzhenitsyn was Rasgon the founders of the human rights organization Memorial. He was a member of the jobs created by Yeltsin centers of Pardons and Paroles, which campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty and a reform of the legal system in Russia.

Works

• Nothing but the truth. Memories. Nation and world, Berlin, 1992, ISBN 3-353-00901-9