Yakov Etinger (politologist)
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Yakov Yakovlevich Etinger (Belarusian: Якаў Якаўлевіч Этынгер; Russian: Яков Яковлевич Этингер; August 12, 1929 – August 5, 2014) was a Russian political scientist, essayist, historian and political activist.[1][2]
Biography
Etinger was born as Yakov Lazarevich Siterman (
Holocaust. The boy was saved by his nanny Marina Kharetskaya (who was named a Righteous Among the Nations in 1997). He was adopted by the physician Yakov Gilyarievich Etinger and took his family name and patronymic
.
During the
Doctors' Plot affair, his foster parents were arrested and his father died in prison. Yakov was also arrested in 1950 and sentenced to 10 years in a gulag labor camp as the result of a false accusation of anti-Sovietism. He was exonerated in 1954. He died at the age of 84 on August 6, 2014.[3]
Scholarly activity
From 1956 to 1989 he worked in the
principal research fellow, becoming one of the leading Soviet scholars of African studies
.
Political activity
In 1988 he was the member of the organizing committee of the
Memorial Society
.
Literary work
In the 1990s Yakov Etinger published many works about
Soviet political repressions and antisemitism in the Soviet Union
, both in Russia and abroad.
References
- ^ "Caucasian Knot | Yakov Etinger, one of the founders of "Memorial", dies". Eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
- ^ Yakov Etinger died (in Russian). memorial.ru… Retrieved 2014-08-11
- ^ "Caucasian Knot | Yakov Etinger, one of the founders of "Memorial", dies". eng.kavkaz-uzel.ru. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11.
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