Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev a Russian historian, was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from the Leningrad University. During the Soviet era, Medvedev criticized Stalin and Stalinism from a Marxist viewpoint. Medvedev became a researcher at the Education Academy after joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956. In the early 1960s, he was engaged in samizdat publications. In 1969, Medvedev was purged from the CPSU after the publication of his book, … Wikipedia
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Roy Medvedev became well known in the West as the leading dissident Soviet historian during the Brezhnev years. He was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1969, when his letter to the editor of the CPSU's theoretical magazine Kommuni www.greenleft.org.au/1991/32/373
When the first edition of Let History Judge was published in the west, it was of unusual significance. Here we had a massive indictment of Stalin and Stalinism by a dissident Soviet writer, who declared his allegiance to Marxism and the October Revolutio www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol2/no4/me...