Zhores Medvedev

Zhores Medvedev

Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev ( _ru. Жорес Медведев) (born in Tbilisi, Georgia on November 14, 1925) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev.

Biograhpy

Youth and education

Medvedev's first name is properly spelled "Jaurès", as he was named for the French socialist leader.

Career and dissent

He is famous for exposing the nuclear disaster which occurred at Mayak near Kyshtym, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals in 1957. He was one of the earliest victims of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. He was diagnosed as suffering from "sluggishly progressing schizophrenia" and was placed by force to "psikhushka" (i.e., Soviet psychiatric hospital) in 1970. Academicians Pyotr Kapitsa and Andrei Sakharov defended him. According to Sakharov, "Medvedev's work in two disparate fields - biology and political science - was regarded as evidence of a split personality...In fact, his detention was the Lysenkovites' revenge for his book attacking them." [ Vadim J. Birstein. "The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science." Westview Press (2004) ISBN 0813342805 ]

He was exiled in 1973 from the Soviet Union and now lives with his wife in London where he is a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research and now a specialist in gerontology.

He is the author of "The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko" (1969), "The Medvedev Papers" (1971), "Soviet Science" (1978), and "The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals" (1979).

His twin brother Roy Medvedev is a historian, they coauthored "Khrushchev: The Years in Power" released in 1978. The brothers also wrote several other books.

He had two sons, one of whom is deceased. The other, Dimitri, ran the "Blue Bridge Café" in Camden, London, before moving to the West Country.

He is unrelated to current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

Works

* "Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy" (with Roy Medvedev, Ellen Dahrendorf - Translator) (Overlook Press, 2005) ISBN 1-58567-644-6
* "Legacy of Chernobyl" (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992) ISBN 0-393-30814-6
* "Soviet Agriculture" (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988) ISBN 0-393-02472-5
* "Gorbachev" (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987) ISBN 0-393-30408-6
* "Andropov" (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1983) ISBN 0-393-01791-5
* "Nuclear Disaster in the Urals" (1980) ISBN 0-394-74445-4
* "Gorbachev" (1986) ISBN 0-631-14782-9
* "Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of Development" (1970) ISBN 0-306-30403-1
* "Medvedev Papers: Fruitful Meetings between Scientists of the World" (1971) ISBN 0-333-12520-7
* "Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich" (1974) ISBN 0-394-71112-2
* "Hazards of Nuclear Power" (with Alan Roberts) (1977) ISBN 0-85124-211-1
* "Secrecy of Correspondence Is Guaranteed by Law" (1975) ISBN 0-85124-128-X
* "Stalin and the Jewish Question: New Analysis" (2003, in Russian) ISBN 5-7712-0251-7
* "Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: Two Prophets" (with Roy Medvedev) (2004, in Russian) ISBN 5-94117-065-3
* "Rise & Fall Of Trofim D. Lysenko" ISBN 0-231-03183-1
* "Medvedev Papers: The Plight Of Soviet Science" ISBN 3-331-25207-7
* "A Question Of Madness" (with Roy Medvedev) ISBN 0-14-003783-7
* "Nuclear Disaster In The Urals" (Trans George Saunders) ISBN 0-207-95896-3
* "Khrushchev: The Years In Power" (with Roy Medvedev) ISBN 0-8357-0154-9
* "National Frontiers & International Scientific Cooperation" (Medvedev Papers) ISBN 0-85124-127-1

* A series of articles on Alexander Litvinenko poisoning in Gazeta 2000 and Krasnoyarsky Rabochy, March-April 2007, in Russian:
** [http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/1706173503.html A sickness without the diagnosis.] [http://www.online-translator.com/url/tran_url.asp?direction=re&autotranslate=on&transliterate=on&url=http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/1706173503.html Machine translation] .
** [http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/123651607.html Polonium in London.] [http://www.online-translator.com/url/tran_url.asp?direction=re&autotranslate=on&transliterate=on&url=http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/123651607.html Machine translation] .
** [http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/1489359476.html Scotland Yard detectives follow the radioactive trace.] [http://www.online-translator.com/url/tran_url.asp?direction=re&autotranslate=on&transliterate=on&url=http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/1489359476.html Machine translation] .
** [http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/polonijvlondone.html Litvinenko in London. A fateful business consutation.] [http://www.online-translator.com/url/tran_url.asp?direction=re&autotranslate=on&transliterate=on&url=http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/polonijvlondone.html Machine translation] .
** [http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/1859316746.html Litvinenko in London. From consultations to blackmailing.] [http://www.online-translator.com/url/tran_url.asp?direction=re&autotranslate=on&transliterate=on&url=http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/1859316746.html Machine translation] .
** [http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/489518084.html Why Scotland Yard ceased the investigation.] [http://www.online-translator.com/url/tran_url.asp?direction=re&autotranslate=on&transliterate=on&url=http://www.news2000.com.ua/print/aspekty/489518084.html Machine translation] .

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