Joseph Brodsky trial transcript, 1964.

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Joseph Brodsky trial transcript, 1964.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123379397

Proceedings of the trial of Joseph Brodsky on charges of social parasitism, held in the court of the Dzerzhinskiĭ district of Leningrad.

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Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library

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Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996

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Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky (Joseph Brodsky) (1940-1996), a Russian poet, was born May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) to Jewish parents. He left school at the age of fifteen to study independently, teaching himself English and Polish. In 1964 he was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "social parasitism" and sentenced to five years of hard labor on a state farm near the Arctic Circle. He was released after serving less than two years of his sentence, but in 1972 he...