Andrei Alekseyevich Amalrik

Background

Andrei Amalrik was on the 12th of March 1938 in Moscow, USSR (now Russian Federation). He's a son of Aleksei Amalrik (a military officer and historian).

Education

Amalrik often skipped school as a boy, but by the time he entered Moscow University he took his education more seriously. He graduated from Moscow University where he was studying during the years 1959-1963.

Career

Andrei worked at odd jobs, including mail delivery. He was a free-lance writer in 1963-80 and also been incarcerated in Siberian prison camps in two periods for his writings: 1965-66, 1970-75.

Works

• book

  • Will the Soviet Union survive until 1984? By Andrei Amalrik. Pref. by Henry Kamm. Commentary by Sidney Monas 1970
  • Involuntary Journey To Siberia by Andrei Amalrik (1971-09-29) 1971

Politics

Andrei has liberal political views.

Views

Amalrik has his personal courage and pessimistic views of the Russian people’s chances for democracy.

Personality

Amalrik is also remembered for his personal courage and for his pessimistic views of the Russian people’s chances for democracy; the latter set him apart from most of his colleagues in the dissident movement.

Quotes from others about the person

• William Maxwell noted in the New Yorker: "He tooks a pessimistic view of the theory that the rise of an educated middle class would in time force the Soviet system to become more democratic."

Interests

• policy

Connections

Andrei is married Gyuzel Makudinova who was a painter in 1965.

Father:

Aleksei Amalrik

Spouse:

Gyuzel Makudinova

They were married in 1965. She lived in France from 1976.