Victor Krasin
Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin | |
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Виктор Александрович Красин | |
dissident movement in the Soviet Union |
Victor Aleksandrovich Krasin (also spelled Viktor Krasin,
Biography
In 1947 Krasin entered the
In January 1949, Krasin and some friends were arrested by the
In 1950 Krasin was transferred to the
In 1963 Krasin graduated from the Economic Faculty of Moscow State University. He worked as a truck and taxi driver.[5]: 109–120 Krasin completed postgraduate studies in 1966 in the Department of Statistics. He was unable to defend his thesis because it did not correspond to Marxist standards. From 1966 to 1968 Krasin worked as a researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI).
At this time Krasin started self-publishing: he took photographs and gave friends uncensored books to read. Krasin also began collecting information about human rights violations. He established relations with American correspondents
In the autumn of 1968 Krasin was fired from CEMI, because he refused to stop his human rights activities. He did not work for a year but meanwhile began contributing to
In September 1972 he was again arrested by the KGB on the charge of anti-soviet propaganda (Article 70).[9] He was subjected to intense KGB interrogation and agreed to cooperate. Based on his testimony, many Soviet dissidents were convicted.[10] Then he was placed on trial with Yakir.[11] They were initially sentenced to three years of exile, but then freed.[10] Krasin subsequently wrote a book detailing the interrogation and the trial.[5]
On September 12, 1973, two weeks after Krasin's trial, the
In February 1975, Krasin and his wife emigrated to the United States. They became US citizens in 1981.
Victor Krasin died on September 3, 2017, of unknown causes. He was 88.
References
- ^ "В Израиле умер экономист и правозащитник Виктор Красин". Радио Свобода. 4 September 2017.
- ^ Красин Виктор Александрович (р.1929) экономист, правозащитник in Russian
- ^ Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, The, No. 37, Vol.25, October 10, 1973, page(s): 5-6
- ^ Exile in Siberia – Lake Baikal – BaikalNature
- ^ a b Красин, Виктор (1983). "Суд" [The Trial] (in Russian). New York: Chalidze Publications.
- ^ Yakobson, Anatoly; Yakir, Pyotr; Khodorovich, Tatyana; Podyapolskiy, Gregory; Maltsev, Yuri; et al. (21 August 1969). "An Appeal to The UN Committee for Human Rights". The New York Review of Books.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b c Krasin, Victor (18 March 1984). "How I was broken by the K.G.B". The New York Times Magazine: 77.
- JSTOR 20038087.
- ^ a b An ugly story by Alexander Podrabinek
- ^ Mark Hopkins. Russia's Underground Press: The Chronicle of Current Events. 1981.
- ^ 1973 Congressional Record, Senate Resolution 168, Page 29429.
- ^ 1973 Congressional Record, House Resolution, Page 30196.
- ^ "Ежедневный Журнал".
External links
- Ковалёв, Сергей (14 October 2013). "О тщеславии и вранье. Ответ с переходом на личности" [About vanity and lies. The answer with ad hominem argument]. Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). No. 115.
- Лошак, Андрей (3 September 2013). "Анатомия процесса" [The anatomy of a trial (video of the documentary)] (in Russian). Dozhd.