Roy Medvedev
| Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Рой Александрович Медведев |
| Born |
November 14, 1925 Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR |
| Citizenship |
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| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | Russian studies, investigative journalism |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Known for | human rights activism with participation in dissident movement in the Soviet Union |
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Рой Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; born 14 November 1925, Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian political writer, author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge (Russian: К суду истории), first published in English in 1972. Medvedev became a prominent Russian public figure and served as a consultant to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Roy Medvedev was the son of Aleksander Romanovich Medvedev, a professor of Military-Political Academy and has an identical twin brother, the biologist Zhores Medvedev. Their father was arrested in 1938, during one of Joseph Stalin's purges, and died in a labor camp in 1941.
Medvedev graduated from the Leningrad University. After joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956 Medvedev pursued a teaching career before becoming a researcher in the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
From a Marxist viewpoint, Medvedev 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.
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