Valery Chalidze

Valeri Nikolayevich Tschalidse (Georgian ვალერი ჭალიძე; Russian Валерий Николаевич Чалидзе, English transcription Valery Chalidze; * 1938 in Moscow ) is a Georgian- American author and publisher, and formerly in the Soviet Union, a human rights activist and dissident.

Tschalidse studied Physics in Moscow and Tbilisi. From the mid-1960s he was active in the Soviet Union for human rights. He founded the samizdat magazine The Social Problems ( Obshchestvennye problemy ) and founded in 1970 with Andrei Sakharov and Andrei Twerdoklebow the Moscow Committee for Human Rights. After a lecture tour in the United States in 1972 Tschalidse was denied the return trip and deprived him of Soviet citizenship.

Tschalidse settled in New York City and moved into its publisher Khronika Press Russian-language books and a magazine that human rights violations in the Soviet Union accurately recorded ( Khronika tekushchikh sobytij, The Chronicle of Current Events, chronicle of current events ). In his founded 1979 Publisher Chalidze Publications he published books in Russian and in English, which were due to the censorship in the Soviet Union is not accessible until then, including the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev and books on political philosophy and sociology. After his marriage in 1981 with Lisa Leah Barnhardt he moved to Benson (Vermont ), which was also the seat of his various companies.

Tschalidse published his own works, for example, about the Soviet dissident movement ( The Soviet Human Rights Movement, 1984), Crime in Russia ( Criminal Russia - Essays on Crime in the Soviet Union, 1977), Stalin ( Conqueror of Communism, 1981) and Leo Trotsky and works of Trotzski itself from the Trotsky archives at Harvard University. Tschalidse also published books on the application of Entropiekonzepts in economics and neuroscience and Paläolinguistik

In 1990 he published the first Russian translation of the Federalist Papers on behalf of the U.S. Government, the then U.S. President George HW Bush presented the Soviet President Gorbachev as a gift.

In 1985 he was MacArthur Fellow.