Leonid Plyushch

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Leonid Plyushch


Born
in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
April 26, 1939

Died
June 04, 2015

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Ukrainian mathematician, dissident, and literary critic. He completed his studies at the Kyiv University with a degree in mathematics in 1963 and worked at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR until 1968. In 1969 he joined the Initiating Group for the Defense of Human Rights. He was dismissed from his job in 1969 and arrested in 1972 for writing articles and signing letters of protest against the violation of human rights. He was declared mentally ill and incarcerated in the Dnipropetrovsk special psychiatric hospital. Pressure from various groups in the West, most notably from French mathematicians, led to his release and his summary expulsion from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to France in ...more

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У карнавалі історії. Свідче...

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Samizdat; voices of the Sov...

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Його Таємниця або «Прекрасн...

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Листування (1979–1995)

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Екзод Тараса Шевченка

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Розмова з Леонідом Плющем. ...

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Ukraine, à nous l'Europe! (...

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History's Carnival

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La Route et l'Hirondelle

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“На жаль, нового Нюрберґу, міжнародного суду над комунізмом так і не відбулося.”
Leonid Plyushch, History's Carnival: A Dissident's Autobiography