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Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Рой Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; born 14 November 1925) is a Russian politician and writer. He is the author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge (Russian: К суду истории), first published in English in 1972.
Medvedev was expelled from the Communist Party in 1969 after his book Let History Judge was published abroad. The book criticized Stalin and Stalinism at a time when official Soviet propagandists were trying to rehabilitate the former General Secretary. Let History Judge reflected the dissident thinking that emerged in the 1960s among Soviet intellectuals who sought a reformist version of socialism like Medvedev. Along with Andrei Sakharov and others, he announced his position in an open letter to the Soviet leadership in 1970. In a book co-authored with his twin brother, Zhores, A Question of Madness, Medvedev describes Zhores' involuntary commitment in the Kaluga Psychiatric Hospital (see Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union). Zhores, a dissident biologist, was questioned in the hospital about his involvement with samizdat, and his book The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko. Zhores was exiled to Britain in the 1970s.
Medvedev rejoined the Communist Party in 1989, after Mikhail Gorbachev launched his perestroika and glasnost program of gradual political and economic reforms. He was elected to the Soviet Union's Congress of People's Deputies and was named as member of the Supreme Soviet, the permanent working body of the Congress. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Medvedev and dozens of other former communist deputies of the Soviet and Russian parliaments founded the Socialist Party of Working People, and became a co-chair of the party.[1][2] In 2008, Medvedev wrote a biography of Vladimir Putin where he gave his activities as president a positive evaluation.[3]
Medvedev, Roy (July 1974). "On Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago". Soviet Studies in Literature. 10 (3): 44–62. doi:10.2753/RSL1061-1975100344.
Medvedev, Roy (January–February 1974). "Problems of democratization and détente". New Left Review. 1 (83): 25–33.
Medvedev, Roy (1 September 1974). "What lies ahead for us?". New Left Review (87): 61.
Medvedev, Roy (March 1979). "The future of Soviet dissent". Index on Censorship. 8 (2): 25–31. doi:10.1080/03064227908532898. S2CID 144007468.
Medvedev, Roy (1 January 1984). "Andropov and the dissidents: the internal atmosphere under the new Soviet leadership". Dissent. 31 (1): 97–102.
Medvedev, Roy; Vladimov, Georgi (May 1979). "Controversy: dissent among dissidents". Index on Censorship. 8 (3): 33–37. doi:10.1080/03064227908532924. S2CID 147185209.
Medvedev, Roy (1 May 1980). "The Afghan crisis". New Left Review. 1 (121): 91.
Medvedev, Roy; Medvedev, Zhores (1976). "Krushchev's secret speech". Australian Left Review. 1 (52): 34–37.
Medvedev, Roy; Medvedev, Zhores (November–December 1981). "The USSR and the arms race". New Left Review. 1 (130).
Medvedev, Roy; Medvedev, Zhores (1982). "A nuclear samizdat on Americas arms-race". The Nation. 234 (2): 38.
Medvedev, Roy (1 September 1991). "Politics after the coup". New Left Review. 1 (189): 91.
Medvedev, Roy (Fall 1992). "After the communist collapse: new political tendencies in Russia". Dissent. 39: 489–497.
Medvedev, Roy (March 1995). "Russia today". Russian Politics and Law. 33 (2): 40–46. doi:10.2753/RUP1061-1940330240.
Medvedev, Roy (March 1996). "Russians and Germans fifty years after World War II". Russian Politics and Law. 33 (2): 82–96. doi:10.2753/RUP1061-1940340282.
Medvedev, Roy (May 1998). "Russia again at the сrossroads". Sociological Research. 37 (3): 22–42. doi:10.2753/SOR1061-0154370322.
Medvedev, Roy (May 1998). "A new class in Russian society". Russian Politics and Law. 36 (3): 45–66. doi:10.2753/RUP1061-1940360345.
Medvedev, Roy (July 1999). "A long-term construction project for Russia". Russian Politics and Law. 37 (4): 5–48. doi:10.2753/RUP1061-194037045.
Medvedev, Roy (July 2000). "Boris Yeltsin resigns". Russian Politics and Law. 38 (4): 82–88. doi:10.2753/RUP1061-1940380482. S2CID 144439858.
Medvedev, Roy (12 July 2006). "History and myths". Russia in Global Affairs.
Medvedev, Roy (June 2007). "The Russian language throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States: toward a statement of the problem". Russian Politics and Law. 45 (3): 5–30. doi:10.2753/RUP1061-1940450301. S2CID 143887460.
Medvedev, Roy (July–September 2007). (PDF). Russia in Global Affairs. 5 (3): 194–213. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2016.
References
^Weir, Fred (February 1993). "An interview with Roy Medvedev". Monthly Review. 44 (9): 1–10. doi:10.14452/MR-044-09-1993-02_1.
^Vishnevsky, Boris (25 January 2008). . Novaya Gazeta. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
Inside Russia Today. David K. Shipler.
Further reading
Medvedev's notion of Stalinism: a review of developments in Roy Medvedev's writings about the Soviet system. British and Irish Communist Organisation. 1980.
Sheppard, R.Z. (13 December 1971). "Books: the brothers Medvedev". Time.
Surovtseva, Ekaterina (2015). "А.И. Солженицын, А.Д. Сахаров и Р. Медведев: дискуссия вокруг "Письма вождям Советского Союза" и её восприятие в эмигрантской печати (М. Агурский)" [A.I. Solzhenitsyn, A.D. Sakharov and R. Medvedev: the debate around "Letter to the Soviet leaders" and its perception in the emigre press (M. Agursky)]. Молодой ученый (in Russian) (2): 608–613. from the original on 19 April 2015.
Trevithick, John (1987). Roy Medvedev: Soviet dissident historian.
Medvedev, Roy (1971). Let History Judge - English translation
Weir, Fred (February 1993). "An interview with Roy Medvedev". Monthly Review. 44 (9): 1–10. doi:10.14452/MR-044-09-1993-02_1.
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For other people with the same name see Medvedev This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian November 2015 Click show for important translation instructions View a machine translated version of the Russian article Machine translation like DeepL or Google Translate is a useful starting point for translations but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate rather than simply copy pasting machine translated text into the English Wikipedia Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low quality If possible verify the text with references provided in the foreign language article You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at ru Medvedev Roj Aleksandrovich see its history for attribution You should also add the template Translated ru Medvedev Roj Aleksandrovich to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations October 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Medvedev Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev Russian Roj Aleksa ndrovich Medve dev born 14 November 1925 is a Russian politician and writer He is the author of the dissident history of Stalinism Let History Judge Russian K sudu istorii first published in English in 1972 Roy MedvedevRoj MedvedevBornRoy Aleksandrovich Medvedev 1925 11 14 14 November 1925 age 97 Tbilisi Transcaucasian SFSR Soviet UnionNationalityRussianCitizenshipSoviet Union 1925 1991 Russia 1991 present Alma materSaint Petersburg State UniversityKnown forHuman rights activism with participation in dissident movement in the Soviet UnionScientific careerFieldsRussian studies investigative journalism Contents 1 Biography 2 Publications in English 3 References 4 Further readingBiography EditMedvedev was born in Tbilisi Transcaucasian SFSR Soviet Union He had an identical twin brother the biologist Zhores Medvedev who died in 2018 From a Marxist viewpoint Roy criticized former Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin and Stalinism in general during the Soviet era In the early 1960s Medvedev was engaged in samizdat publications He was critical of the unscientific nature of Lysenkoism Medvedev was expelled from the Communist Party in 1969 after his book Let History Judge was published abroad The book criticized Stalin and Stalinism at a time when official Soviet propagandists were trying to rehabilitate the former General Secretary Let History Judge reflected the dissident thinking that emerged in the 1960s among Soviet intellectuals who sought a reformist version of socialism like Medvedev Along with Andrei Sakharov and others he announced his position in an open letter to the Soviet leadership in 1970 In a book co authored with his twin brother Zhores A Question of Madness Medvedev describes Zhores involuntary commitment in the Kaluga Psychiatric Hospital see Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union Zhores a dissident biologist was questioned in the hospital about his involvement with samizdat and his book The Rise and Fall of T D Lysenko Zhores was exiled to Britain in the 1970s Medvedev rejoined the Communist Party in 1989 after Mikhail Gorbachev launched his perestroika and glasnost program of gradual political and economic reforms He was elected to the Soviet Union s Congress of People s Deputies and was named as member of the Supreme Soviet the permanent working body of the Congress Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Medvedev and dozens of other former communist deputies of the Soviet and Russian parliaments founded the Socialist Party of Working People and became a co chair of the party 1 2 In 2008 Medvedev wrote a biography of Vladimir Putin where he gave his activities as president a positive evaluation 3 Publications in English EditBooksLet History Judge The Origin and Consequences of Stalinism Alfred A Knopf New York 1972 ISBN 0 394 44645 3 On Socialist Democracy Alfred A Knopf New York 1975 ISBN 0 394 48960 8 Problems in the Literary Biography of Mikhail Sholokhov Cambridge University Press 1977 Khrushchev Blackwell Oxford Doubleday New York 1983 ISBN 0 385 18387 9 The October Revolution Columbia University Press New York 1979 ISBN 0094629005 All Stalin s Men Blackwell Oxford 1984 ISBN 0 385 18388 7 A Question Of Madness with Zhores Medvedev Alfred A Knopf New York 1971 ISBN 0 394 47900 9 ISBN 0 14 003783 7 Khrushchev The Years in Power with Zhores Medvedev 198 pages Columbia University Press 1976 ISBN 0 231 03939 5 On Soviet Dissent Columbia University Press 1979 ISBN 0 231 04812 2 Philip Mironov and the Russian Civil War with Sergei Starikov Alfred A Knopf 1978 ISBN 0 394 40681 8 Leninism and Western Socialism Verso 1981 ISBN 0 86091 739 8 Nikolai Bukharin The Last Years 176 pages W W Norton amp Company 1983 ISBN 0 393 30110 9 Let History Judge The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism Revised and expanded edition Columbia University Press 1989 ISBN 0 231 06350 4 Post Soviet Russia A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era with George Shriver 394 pages Columbia University Press 2002 ISBN 0 231 10607 6 The Unknown Stalin with Zhores Medvedev The Overlook Press 336 pages 2004 ISBN 1 58567 502 4 China and the Superpowers Basil Blackwell Oxford 1986 ISBN 0 631 13843 9ArticlesSakharov Andrei Turchin Valentin Medvedev Roy 6 June 1970 The need for democratization The Saturday Review 26 27 Sakharov Andrei Turchin Valentin Medvedev Roy Summer 1970 An open letter Survey 160 170 Medvedev Roy 1974 The Gulag Archipelago Australian Left Review 1 45 25 33 Medvedev Roy July 1974 On Solzhenitsyn s book The Gulag Archipelago Soviet Studies in Literature 10 3 44 62 doi 10 2753 RSL1061 1975100344 Medvedev Roy January February 1974 Problems of democratization and detente New Left Review 1 83 25 33 Medvedev Roy 1 September 1974 What lies ahead for us New Left Review 87 61 Medvedev Roy March 1979 The future of Soviet dissent Index on Censorship 8 2 25 31 doi 10 1080 03064227908532898 S2CID 144007468 Medvedev Roy 1 January 1984 Andropov and the dissidents the internal atmosphere under the new Soviet leadership Dissent 31 1 97 102 Medvedev Roy Vladimov Georgi May 1979 Controversy dissent among dissidents Index on Censorship 8 3 33 37 doi 10 1080 03064227908532924 S2CID 147185209 Medvedev Roy 1 May 1980 The Afghan crisis New Left Review 1 121 91 Medvedev Roy Medvedev Zhores 1976 Krushchev s secret speech Australian Left Review 1 52 34 37 Medvedev Roy Medvedev Zhores November December 1981 The USSR and the arms race New Left Review 1 130 Medvedev Roy Medvedev Zhores 1982 A nuclear samizdat on Americas arms race The Nation 234 2 38 Medvedev Roy 1 September 1991 Politics after the coup New Left Review 1 189 91 Medvedev Roy Fall 1992 After the communist collapse new political tendencies in Russia Dissent 39 489 497 Medvedev Roy March 1995 Russia today Russian Politics and Law 33 2 40 46 doi 10 2753 RUP1061 1940330240 Medvedev Roy March 1996 Russians and Germans fifty years after World War II Russian Politics and Law 33 2 82 96 doi 10 2753 RUP1061 1940340282 Medvedev Roy May 1998 Russia again at the srossroads Sociological Research 37 3 22 42 doi 10 2753 SOR1061 0154370322 Medvedev Roy May 1998 A new class in Russian society Russian Politics and Law 36 3 45 66 doi 10 2753 RUP1061 1940360345 Medvedev Roy July 1999 A long term construction project for Russia Russian Politics and Law 37 4 5 48 doi 10 2753 RUP1061 194037045 Medvedev Roy July 2000 Boris Yeltsin resigns Russian Politics and Law 38 4 82 88 doi 10 2753 RUP1061 1940380482 S2CID 144439858 Medvedev Roy 12 July 2006 History and myths Russia in Global Affairs Medvedev Roy June 2007 The Russian language throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States toward a statement of the problem Russian Politics and Law 45 3 5 30 doi 10 2753 RUP1061 1940450301 S2CID 143887460 Medvedev Roy July September 2007 A splinted Ukraine PDF Russia in Global Affairs 5 3 194 213 Archived from the original PDF on 19 January 2016 References Edit Weir Fred February 1993 An interview with Roy Medvedev Monthly Review 44 9 1 10 doi 10 14452 MR 044 09 1993 02 1 Roy Medvedev Stalinist semi liar stuff mit edu Retrieved 2023 01 14 Vishnevsky Boris 25 January 2008 Praising ode Novaya Gazeta Archived from the original on 18 May 2015 Inside Russia Today David K Shipler Further reading EditMedvedev s notion of Stalinism a review of developments in Roy Medvedev s writings about the Soviet system British and Irish Communist Organisation 1980 Jones Jeffrey 1992 Roy Medvedev prophet of perestroika University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sheppard R Z 13 December 1971 Books the brothers Medvedev Time Surovtseva Ekaterina 2015 A I Solzhenicyn A D Saharov i R Medvedev diskussiya vokrug Pisma vozhdyam Sovetskogo Soyuza i eyo vospriyatie v emigrantskoj pechati M Agurskij A I Solzhenitsyn A D Sakharov and R Medvedev the debate around Letter to the Soviet leaders and its perception in the emigre press M Agursky Molodoj uchenyj in Russian 2 608 613 Archived from the original on 19 April 2015 Trevithick John 1987 Roy Medvedev Soviet dissident historian Medvedev Roy 1971 Let History Judge English translation Weir Fred February 1993 An interview with Roy Medvedev Monthly Review 44 9 1 10 doi 10 14452 MR 044 09 1993 02 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Roy Medvedev amp oldid 1152215902, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
