Alexander Ginzburg

Journalist, Author

1936 – 2002

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Who was Alexander Ginzburg?

Alexander Ilyich Ginzburg, was a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident.

During the Soviet period, Ginzburg edited the samizdat poetry almanac Sintaksis. Between 1961 and 1969 he was sentenced three times to labor camps. In 1979, Ginzburg was released and expelled to the United States, along with four other political prisoners and their families, as part of a prisoner exchange.

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Born
Nov 21, 1936
Moscow
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Died
Jul 19, 2002

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on July 23, 2013

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