Zhores A. Medvedev (1925–2018)
Autor de Khrushchev: The Years in Power
Sobre El Autor
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev was born in Tbilisi, in Soviet Georgia on November 14, 1925. He received a bachelor's degree from the Timiriasev Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a master's degree from the Institute of Plant Physiology at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and a doctorate in mostrar más biochemistry from Timiriasev Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1954. He worked at Timiriasev from 1954 until 1963 and with the Academy of Medical Sciences at Obninsk from 1963 until his dismissal in 1969 because he refused to limit his writings to scientific subjects. Medvedev played a role in discrediting the doctrines of Trofim D. Lysenko, gave the world accounts of the Soviet practice of committing political dissenters to mental institutions, campaigned for greater freedoms for Soviet scientists and writers to study and travel abroad, and exposed a 1957 nuclear disaster in the Urals. On May 29, 1970, he was arrested at his home and taken by doctors to a mental hospital. He was pronounced acutely ill and confined in a locked ward. He was released 19 days later because of written protests from both in the Soviet Union and abroad. In 1973, Medvedev was allowed to go to London to take a one-year job at the National Institute for Medical Research. While there, his Soviet citizenship was revoked. In England, he worked at the Department of Genetics of the National Institute for Medical Research. His Soviet citizenship was reinstated in 1990. He wrote numerous books including Protein Biosynthesis and Problems of Heredity, Development and Aging; Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of Development; The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko; A Question of Madness written with Roy Medvedev; Ten Years After One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Nuclear Disaster in the Urals; Soviet Agriculture; and The Legacy of Chernobyl. He died of a heart attack on November 15, 2018 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Zhores A. Medvedev
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Conocimiento común
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- Медведев, Жорес Александрович
- Otros nombres
- Медведев, Жорес
Medvedev, Zhores Aleksandrovich
Medwedjew, Shores A. - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1925-11-14
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-11-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USSR
UK - Lugar de nacimiento
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Leningrad, Russia, USSR
Obninsk, USSR
Moscow, Russia, USSR - Educación
- Timiriasev Academy of Agricultural Sciences (BS, PhD)
Institute of Plant Physiology at the Soviet Academy of Sciences (MS) - Ocupaciones
- biologist
historian
non-fiction author
dissident
geneticist
microbiologist - Relaciones
- Medvedev, Dmitry (son)
Medvedev, Roy (brother) - Organizaciones
- Timiryazev Academy
National Institute for Medical Research, London
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Khrushchev: The Years in Power (Norton Library… por Roy A. Medvedev
A unique view of the Khrushchev period as seen by two prominent Soviet dissidents.
Extremely technical and crammed with data. Organization jumps around a bit, but still fairly readable.
robably an outstanding effort in 1990.
robably an outstanding effort in 1990.
A short but tedious read - one is astounded at the levels of bureaucracy in post war Russia (1970's). Frightening too that a sane person who speaks out or writes a book could end up confined to a mental hospital.
Il libro è una ricostruzione degli anni al potere di Krusciov. Nel volume gli autori pongono l'accento sulle riforme agricole come ragione della ascesa e della caduta di Krusciov evidenziandone gli aspetti di leader contraddittorio con punti di forza e di debolezza. Krusciov fu l'uomo che avviò il processo di destalinizzazione, che introdusse riforme nella politica di partito, fu artefice della coesistenza pacifica e della spaccatura del blocco sovietico.
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