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Medvedev, Zhores Alexandrovich was born on November 14, 1925 in Tbilisi, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Alexandr Romanovich and Yulia Isaakovna (Reiman) Medvedev.
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Medvedev, Zhores A. Mezhdunarodnoe sotrudnichestvo uchenykh i natsionalnye granitsy - i Taina perepiski okhraniaetsia zakonom. / The Medvedev Papers. (Russian edition). Fruitful meetings between scientists of the world [and] Secrecy of correspondence is guaranteed by law. (Russian Edition) London, Macmillan, 1972. 8°. 597 pages. Original printed wrappers. Very good condition. Few signs of use to the wrappers and the lower edge slightly stained and bumped. Zhores Medvedev is famous for exposing the nuclear disaster which occurred at Mayak near Kyshtym, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals in 1957. Medvedev was one of the earliest victims of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. He was diagnosed as suffering from sluggishly progressing schizophrenia and was placed by force to psikhushka (i.e., Soviet psychiatric hospital) in 1970. Academicians Pyotr Kapitsa and Andrei Sakharov defended him, according to Sakharov; Medvedev's work in two disparate fields - biology and political science - was regarded as evidence of a split personality... In fact, his detention was the Lysenkovites' revenge for his book attacking them. He was exiled in 1973 from the Soviet Union and now lives with his wife in London where he is a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research and now a specialist in gerontology. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko (1969), The Medvedev Papers (1971), Soviet Science (1978), and The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (1979). His twin brother Roy Medvedev is a historian, they coauthored Khrushchev: The Years in Power released in 1978. The brothers also wrote several other books. He had two sons, one of whom is deceased. The other, Dimitri, ran the Blue Bridge Café in Camden, London, before moving to the West Country. (Wikipedia)
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Late in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal section of the Soviet atomic weapons industry located in the Southern Urals where atomic wastes had been stored for over ten years. The result was devastating. The primary radioactive contamination covered between 800 and 1200 square miles, an area almost as large as Rhode Island. People died--whole villages had to be evacuated and bulldozed. All that remained, both plant and animal life, received such a massive dose of radiation that its effects will probably be felt for as long as a century. The story of the explosion and contamination was and still is suppressed in the Soviet Union and, the author contends, by the CIA and other Western intelligence organizations fearful of public resistance to nuclear power plants. Now, after an intensive study of Soviet scientific articles (written to disguise the fact that they were about the Ural explosion) and after many interviews and reports from friends in the scientific community as well as from witnesses, the author has pieced together the story of what actually happened. He analyzes the extent and consequences of the contamination and draws forbidding conclusions about the possibility of similar disasters in the rest of the world.
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The first comprehensive analysis of Soviet agriculture from its historic origins to the present, explaining why collectivization failed and why contemporary methods are inefficient. Medvedev, a noted biochemist, shows why agriculture holds the Soviet future. Illustrated with maps.
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Giving the best and most informative explanation to date of the mystery of Stalin’s death, renowned historians Roy and Zhores Medvedev have written a gripping new biography of Joseph Stalin, based on findings from research into archives only recently made available, as well as the Medvedev brothers’ own experiences during and after Stalin’s brutal regime. Conventional beliefs and cliches are contradicted and disproved, inaccuracies and misconceptions are corrected, and the facts about Stalin’s intellect, ancestry, and the fortunes of his personal effects after his death are fully examined. Perhaps most remarkable of all are the Medvedevs’ revelations and contentions concerning Stalin’s death: There has been much suspicion over whether he was assassinated or died of natural causes, and the authors go a long way toward resolving this question. The Unknown Stalin resonates with particular intensity due to the personal detail and recollections of the two authors—each of whom has his own history as a Russian dissident and commentator. This startling new work represents one of the most significant contributions to the study of Russian history in decades, a book of vital interest to scholars and general readers.
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This book is a political biography of Iurii Andropov, (1914-1984), as ambassador to Hungary, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1982-84) and KGB chief from 1967-82, by the well known Russian historian Roi Medvedev (b. 1925). It covers Andropov's whole career, including 15 months in the chair of the leader of the USSR. The first edition of this biography was published in 1999. This fourth edition includes new materials and new facts about Andropov. Chronology of his life, report about the Andropov's disease and death. Bibliographical references.
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This book by the well known Russian historian Roi Medvedev (b. 1925) is a political biography of Iurii Andropov, (1914-1984), the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1982-84) and KGB chief from 1967-82. It covers his career in this job, as well as his 15 months in the chair of the leader of the USSR. Name index.
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V nastoiashchem tome pod odnoi oblozhkoi publikuiutsia dve knigi istorika Roia Medvedeva. Odna - politicheskaia biografiia L.I. Brezhneva - napisana v 1988-1990 gg. i opublikovana v SSSR v 1991 g. Vtoraia - politicheskaia biografiia Iu.V. Andropova - napisana v 1993-1998 gg., opublikovana v Rossii v 1999 g. Prezentatciia etoi knigi proshla v iiune 1999 g. na rasshirennoi kollegii FSB pod predsedatelstvom V.V. Putina. V Rossii kniga ob Andropove izdavalas shest raz. Ona perevedena i izdana v Kitae. V knigakh R.A. Medvedeva my vidim ne tolko politicheskie biografii dvukh vidnykh deiatelei SSSR, no i otrazhenie istorii Sovetskogo Soiuza v 50-80-e gody.
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Medvedev, Zhores Alexandrovich was born on November 14, 1925 in Tbilisi, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Alexandr Romanovich and Yulia Isaakovna (Reiman) Medvedev.
Timiriazev Academy, of Agricultural Sciences, Moscow, Institute of Plant Physiology, USSR Academy, of Sciences.
Twin brother of the historian, Roi Medvedev. Became known as a biologist and gerontologist whose samizdat works criticized the Lysenko regime in Soviet science under Stalin. Wrote a remarkable samizdat study on Soviet censorship of mail (later published in the West).
Arrested, 1970, and put into a psychiatric hospital in Kaluga. Following protests from the international scientific community, released after 2 weeks. Emigrated to Britain, 1973, but kept in touch with his brother and others in the USSR.
Has written a number of books interpreting recent events and personalities in the USSR, including Gorbachev.
Lives and works in London.
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( “The story of Medvedev’s own hospitalization and the ef...)
(This book is a political biography of Iurii Andropov, (19...)
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( Late in 1957 a huge explosion occurred in the disposal ...)
(The first comprehensive analysis of Soviet agriculture fr...)
( "A damning history of the Chernobyl affair, from its or...)
(The murder of former KGB and FSB officer Aleksandr Litvin...)
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(Biography, Soviet Studies, Political Studies)
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Author: Protein Biosynthesis, 1966, The Rise and Fall of Technical Director Lysenko, 1969, The Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of Development, 1970, Medvedev Papers, 1971, Ten Years After Ivan Denisovich, 1973, Soviet Science, 1978, Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, 1979, Andropov, 1983, Gorbachev, 1986, Soviet Agriculture, 1987, The Legacy of Chernobyl, 1990. Co-author: Question of Madness, 1971, Khruschev: The Years in Power, 1976, The Unknown Stalin, 2004, Nutrition and Longevity, 2007, Polonium in London, 2008.
There is no conclusive logical argument for the existence of God. His existence is continuously debated.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Served with Russian Army, 1943. Fellow American Gerontological Society. Member British Bio-chemical Society.
Social research and writing, travel.
Married Margarita Busina, October 5, 1951. Children: Alexandr, Dmitry.