Roy Medvedev

Roi Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian Рой Александрович Медведев; born November 14, 1925 in Tbilisi ) is a Russian historian and politician.

Medvedev studied pedagogy and philosophy at the State University of Leningrad. He worked in the Soviet Union Head of Pedagogical Publishing House and in teacher education. Since 1972, Medvedev worked as a freelance writer. He later became a renowned critic of Stalinism.

Medvedev joined the CPSU in 1956 and 1969 was excluded from it. 1988 his exclusion was repealed, Medvedev rose during the perestroika period in the Central Committee of the CPSU on (1989-91 ).

After the fall of the Soviet Union Medvedev was one of the leaders of the movement for democratic socialism, from 1991 on, he is one of the leader of the Socialist Workers' Party of Russia ( Социалистическая партия трудящихся Российской Федерации ). He was a vehement opponent of the GKTschP, and also of the Yeltsin regime. Currently, he advocates a ' red Putinism. "

His twin brother is a biochemist and former Soviet dissident Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev. Her father was arrested in 1938 in the wake of Stalin's repressions and died in prison in 1941.

Works

• « К истории суду: генезис и последствия сталинизма " (New York, 1974)
• Problems in the Literary Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov, Cambridge University Press, 1977
• " Они окружали Сталина " (USA, 1984)
• « Хрущёв. Политический биография " (USA, 1986)
• « Владимир Путин " (2007)
• " Юрий Андропов " (2007). The book earned the FSB premium for Literature 2007 ()