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Leonid Plyushch

Born

in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan

April 26, 1939

Died

June 04, 2015

Genre

Nonfiction, Memoir

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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 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 1976. In 1977 he joined the Foreign Representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Also in 1977 his autobiography appeared, U karnavali istoriï (In the Carnival of History; also in English as History's Carnival, and in French, Italian, and German translations). Fascinated by the Tartu structuralist school (Iurii Lotman) and the Moscow mythologists (V. Ivanov), Pliushch turned to the study of literature. His approach to literature, somewhat influenced also by M. Bakhtin’s notions of the ‘carnival,’ permitted free-ranging associative interpretations. He made his debut as a literary scholar and critic with an insightful study of Taras Shevchenko as mythologizer, Ekzod Tarasa Shevchenka: Navkolo ‘Moskalevoï krynytsi’ dvanadtsiat’ stattiv (Taras Shevchenko’s Exodus: Twelve Essays apropos ‘The Soldier's Well,’ 1987). This was followed by a similarly stimulating examination of the most influential writer of the 1920s, Mykola Khvylovy, in Ioho taiemnytsia abo “Prekrasna lozha” Khvyl'ovoho (His Secret or Khvylovy’s “Beautiful Lodge,” 2006). Pliushch was active in the External Representation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and published in various Ukrainian and Russian newspapers and journals on literary and political subjects.

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	У карнавалі історії. Свідчення. by Leonid Plyushch, Dzvinka Matiash (Translator), Тетяна Житникова-Плющ 4.53 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samizdat; voices of the Soviet opposition by George Sanders, George Sanders, Vadim Delone 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Листування (1979–1995) by Леонід Плющ, Юрій Шевельов, George Y. Shevelov 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Його Таємниця або «Прекрасна ложа» Xвильового 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Екзод Тараса Шевченка by Leonid Plyushch, George Y. Shevelov 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Розмова з Леонідом Плющем. Ексклюзивне інтерв’ю редакції Діялогу it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ukraine, à nous l'Europe! (Documents / Editions du Rocher) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An interview with Leonid Plyushch. A hitherto unpublished conversation with the prominent Soviet dissident in which he discusses: The development of his polical views, the nature of Soviet Society, n. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History's Carnival 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Route et l'Hirondelle by Mykola Khvylovy, Leonid Pliouchtch, Oles Masliouk (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars