- Alexander Ginzburg
Alexander (Alik) Ilyich Ginzburg ( _ru. Александр Ильич Гинзбург;
November 21 ,1936 Moscow –July 19 ,2002 Paris ), was aRussia njournalist ,poet ,human rights activist anddissident .During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited the
samizdat poetryalmanac "Sintaksis ". Between 1961 and 1969 he was sentenced three times tolabor camp s. In 1979, Ginzburg was released and expelled to theUnited States , along with four other political prisoners (Eduard Kuznetsov ,Mark Dymshits ,Valentin Moroz , andGeorgy Vins ) and their families, as part of a prisoner exchange.Dissident Work
Throughout his career, Ginzburg advocated
non-violent resistance . He believed in exposinghuman rights abuses by theSoviet Union and pressuring the government to follow its own laws. He made an effort to smuggle his writings abroad in order to increase external pressure on the Soviets.See also
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Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair
*Igor Guberman
*gulag
*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn External links
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=2233 Alexander Ginzburg and the Resistance to Totalitarian Evil, Then and Now] , a 2002 interview with
Eduard Kuznetsov ,Vladimir Bukovsky andYuri Yarim-Agaev Bibliography
* "The White Book"
* "The Trial of the Four"
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