Alexander Ginzburg

Alexander (Alik) Ilyich Ginzburg ( _ru. Александр Ильич Гинзбург; November 21, 1936 Moscow – July 19, 2002 Paris), was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.

During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited the samizdat poetry almanac "Sintaksis". Between 1961 and 1969 he was sentenced three times to labor camps. In 1979, Ginzburg was released and expelled to the United States, along with four other political prisoners (Eduard Kuznetsov, Mark Dymshits, Valentin Moroz, and Georgy Vins) and their families, as part of a prisoner exchange.

Dissident Work

Throughout his career, Ginzburg advocated non-violent resistance. He believed in exposing human rights abuses by the Soviet 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

* 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 and Yuri Yarim-Agaev

Bibliography

* "The White Book"
* "The Trial of the Four"