Ludvík Vaculík

male, 83 years old
Ludvík Vaculík is a Czech writer and journalist. A prominent samizdat writer, he is most famous as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" ma...
Egon Bondy

Egon Bondy

male, deceased (2007)
Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the main personalities of the Prague underground. In the late 19...
Roy Medvedev

Roy Medvedev

male, 84 years old
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev a Russian historian, was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from the Leningrad University. During the Soviet era,...
Andrei Sinyavsky

Andrei Sinyavsky

male, deceased (1997)
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (Russian language: was a Russian writer, dissident, gulag survivor, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University,...

Kenneth Brown

male
Kenneth P. Brown, Jr. is an American author. He is most famous for authoring reports critical of Linux and open source software, notably the book...

Jiří Gruša

male, 71 years old
Jiří Gruša is a Czech poet, writer, translator, diplomat and politician. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Pra...
Vaclav Benda

Vaclav Benda

male, deceased (1999)
Vaclav Benda (August 8, 1946 - June 2, 1999) was a Czechoslovakian born political activist and mathematician. Along with other dissidents in the...
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

male, 76 years old
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (born July 18, 1933) is a Russian poet. He also directed several films.
Alexander Ginzburg

Alexander Ginzburg

male, deceased (2002)
Alexander (Alik) Ilyich Ginzburg, was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident. During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited...
Pavel Litvinov

Pavel Litvinov

male, 69 years old
Pavel Litvinov (born 1940) is a Russian physicist, writer, human rights activist and former Soviet-era dissident. He is the grandson of Maxim...