SettingsSoviet expellees
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a writer, who, through his often-suppressed writings, helped to raise global awareness of the gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – parti...
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a writer, who, through his often-suppressed writings, helped to raise global awareness of the gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – parti...
Alexander Ginzburg
Alexander Ilyich Ginzburg, was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.
Alexander Ilyich Ginzburg, was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.
Eduard Kuznetsov
Eduard Kuznetsov (Russian language: Эдуард Кузнецов; born in Moscow, 1939) is a Soviet dissident, human rights activist, and writer.
Eduard Kuznetsov (Russian language: Эдуард Кузнецов; born in Moscow, 1939) is a Soviet dissident, human rights activist, and writer.
Georgi Vins
Georgi Petrovich Vins was a Russian Baptist pastor persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his involvement in a network of independent Baptist churches.
Georgi Petrovich Vins was a Russian Baptist pastor persecuted by the Soviet authorities for his involvement in a network of independent Baptist churches.
Gregori Maximoff
Grigori Petrovitch Maximoff (1893–1950) was a Russian-born anarcho-syndicalist who was involved in Nabat, a Ukrainian anarcho-syndicalist movement.
Grigori Petrovitch Maximoff (1893–1950) was a Russian-born anarcho-syndicalist who was involved in Nabat, a Ukrainian anarcho-syndicalist movement.
Ivan Ilyin
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Ильи́н) (March 28, 1883 - December 21, 1954) was a Russian religious and political philosopher, White emigre publicist and an ideologue of the Russ...
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Ильи́н) (March 28, 1883 - December 21, 1954) was a Russian religious and political philosopher, White emigre publicist and an ideologue of the Russ...
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), was a Russian poet and essayist.
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Ио́сиф Алекса́ндрович Бро́дский, ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996), was a Russian poet and essayist.
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.
Leon Trotsky, born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.
Lev Kopelev
Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev was a Soviet author and a dissident.
Lev Zalmanovich Kopelev was a Soviet author and a dissident.
Mollie Steimer
Mollie (or Molly) Steimer (November 21, 1897 – July 23, 1980) was born as Marthe Alperine in Tsarist Russia.
Mollie (or Molly) Steimer (November 21, 1897 – July 23, 1980) was born as Marthe Alperine in Tsarist Russia.
Natalia Sedova
Natalia Ivanovna Sedova (April 5, 1882 – January 23, 1962) is best known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary.
Natalia Ivanovna Sedova (April 5, 1882 – January 23, 1962) is best known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary.
Philosophers' ships
Philosophers' ships is the collective name of several boats that carried Soviet expellees abroad.
Philosophers' ships is the collective name of several boats that carried Soviet expellees abroad.
Pyotr Grigorenko
Petro Grigorenko or Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko or Pyotr Grigoryevich Grigorenko (Петро Григорович Григоренко, Пётр Григорьевич Григоренко; 1907–1987) was a high-ranked Soviet Army ...
Petro Grigorenko or Petro Hryhorovych Hryhorenko or Pyotr Grigoryevich Grigorenko (Петро Григорович Григоренко, Пётр Григорьевич Григоренко; 1907–1987) was a high-ranked Soviet Army ...
Semyon Frank
Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank (Франк, Семён Людвигович 1877 – 1950) was a Jewish-born Russian religious philosopher.
Semyon Lyudvigovich Frank (Франк, Семён Людвигович 1877 – 1950) was a Jewish-born Russian religious philosopher.
Sergei Bulgakov
Fr. Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist.
Fr. Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and economist.
Victor Serge
Victor Serge, born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, also known by the pen name Le Rétif, was a Russian revolutionary and Francophone writer.
Victor Serge, born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich, also known by the pen name Le Rétif, was a Russian revolutionary and Francophone writer.
Viktor Muravin
Viktor Muravin (born 1929) is a Soviet dissident and author, best known for his novel Aurora Borealis, also published under the title The Diary of Vikenty Angarov.
Viktor Muravin (born 1929) is a Soviet dissident and author, best known for his novel Aurora Borealis, also published under the title The Diary of Vikenty Angarov.
Volin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (Все́волод Миха́йлович Эйхенба́ум; August 11, 1882 - September 18, 1945), known in later life as Volin or (the spelling he used himself) Voline (Во́л...
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (Все́волод Миха́йлович Эйхенба́ум; August 11, 1882 - September 18, 1945), known in later life as Volin or (the spelling he used himself) Voline (Во́л...
Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn
Yosef Yitzchok (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn (יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן; 9 June 1880 OS - 28 January 1950 NS) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch c...
Yosef Yitzchok (Joseph Isaac) Schneersohn (יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן; 9 June 1880 OS - 28 January 1950 NS) was an Orthodox rabbi and the sixth Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad Lubavitch c...
Zhores Medvedev
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident.
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; born 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident.