Ginzburg, Aleksandr, 1936-2002

Soviet writer and dissident; subsequently émigré in France.

From the description of Aleksandr Il'ich Ginzburg papers, 1921-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872836

Biographical Note

• 1936 November 21: Born in Moscow, Soveit Union
• 1956 - 1960 : Studied at the Moscow State University, Department of Journalism
• 1959: Edited and distributed first three issues of the Sintaksis underground literary almanac
• 1960 July: Arrested and sentenced to a two-year term in a correctional labor institution in Kirovskaia oblast'
• 1964: Arrested and imprisoned for several months for distribution of New Class book by Milovan Djilas
• 1966: Admitted to the Historical-Archival Institute, Moscow Compiled "Belaia kniga"(White book) about the court trial of writers AndreĬ SiniavskiĬ and IUliĬ Daniel'
• 1967: Arrested, charged with anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation, and sentenced to a five-year camp term, which he partly served in Pot'ma, Mordovia, and partly in the strict regime Vladimirskaia prison
• 1972: Released from camp, prohibited from residence in Moscow, lived in exile in Tarusa
• 1974: Administrator of the Solzhenitsyn Fund for Aid to Political Prisoners
• 1976 May 12: Co-founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG)
• 1977: Arrested, along with other members of the MHG Aleksandr Ginzburg Defence Committee is established in the U.S.
• 1978 July 13: Tried in Kaluga and sentenced to an eight-year strict regime camp term, which he served in the Dubrovlag system in Mordovia
• 1979: Released and exchanged, along with three other political prisoners, for Soviet spies in the United States
• 1979 - 1980 : Lectured at universities in the United States Family joined him in the United States
• 1980: Moved to France
• 1982 - probably 1988 : Head of the Russian Cultural Center in Montgeron
• 1988 - 1997 : Columnist, Russkaia mysl' newspaper
• 2002: Died in Paris, France

From the guide to the Aleksandr Il'ich Ginzburg papers, 1921-2007, (Hoover Institution Archives)