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Andrei Amalrik

Born

in Moscow, Russian Federation

May 12, 1938

Died

November 12, 1980

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Russian writer and one of the most prominent Soviet dissidents. Amalrik was best known for his 1969 essay, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?

He was first arrested in 1965 after attempting to send his university thesis to a Danish Slavic scholar, the late Adolf Stender-Pedersen. Unaccountably, he later wrote in his memoir Involuntary Journey to Siberia, the Danish embassy turned it over to the Soviet Foreign Ministry, which passed it along to the KGB for vetting.

Amalrik was cleared of criminal activities at this stage but now was in the sights of the KGB.
A short time later, for daring to live outside the system, he was convicted of "parasitism" and exiled to Siberia for two and a half years. The sentence was reversed in 1966, however ...more

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	Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984 by Andrei Amalrik, Андрей Амальрик 3.90 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1970 — 14 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
	Involuntary Journey to Siberia 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1970 — 18 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
	Notes of a Revolutionary by Andrei Amalrik, Андрей Амальрик 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1982 — 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
	Nose! Nose? No-Se and Other Plays really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1970 — 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
	Норманны и Киевская Русь by Andrei Amalrik, Андрей Амальрик 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
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	Les Quatorze amants de l'affreuse Mary-Ann by Andrei Amalrik, Marina Gorbov (Translator), Nikita KRIVOCHEINE (Translator) 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
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“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole an even more unpleasant phenomenon than the regime which gave it birth.”
― Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984

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“Any state forced to devote so much of its energies to physically and psychologically controlling millions of its own subjects could not survive indefinitely.”
― Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984

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“There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for all levels of society: this is the extreme isolation in which the regime has placed both society and itself. This isolation has not only separated the regime from society, and all sectors of society from each other, but also put the country in extreme isolation from the rest of the world. This isolation has created for all—from the bureaucratic elite to the lowest social levels—an almost surrealistic picture of the world and of their place in it. Yet the longer this state of affairs helps to perpetuate the status quo, the more rapid and decisive will be its collapse when confrontation with reality becomes inevitable.”
― Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984

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