Vladimir Bukovsky early photo

Vladimir Bukovsky (Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский) (b. December 30, 1942) is a Soviet author. He is a former leading Soviet dissident and human rights activist and was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatry against political prisoners in the USSR. He spent a total of twelve years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and in psikhushkas, forced-treatment psychiatric hospitals used by the regime as special prisons. Vladimir Bukovsky (from [1]) , I think File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Vladimir Bukovsky (from [1]) , I think File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... This article is about the year. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)   listen?; tr. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Hilary Duffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that diagnoses, treats, and studies mental illness and behavioral conditions. ... A political prisoner is anyone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image either challenge or pose a real or potential threat to the state. ... A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in forced labor. ... Psikhushka (психушка) is a colloquialism for psychiatric hospital in Russian language. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Bukovsky was convicted (Article 70-1) in June 1963 for organizing poetry meetings in the center of Moscow (next to the Vladimir Mayakovsky monument) and sent to a psikhushka; freed in February 1964. In January 1965 he was arrested for organizing a demonstration in defense of Alexander Ginzburg, Yuri Galanskov and other dissidents (190-1, 3 years of imprisonment); freed in January 1970. 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... Portrait of Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский) (July 7 (O.S.) = July 19 (N.S.), 1893 - April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for the poetic futurism of early 20th century Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Alexander Ginzburg (born in 1936), a Russian journalist, poet, human rights activist and dissident. ... Yuri Galanskov (1939-1972) was a Russian poet, historian, human rights activist and dissident. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

In 1971, Bukovsky smuggled to the West over 150 pages documenting abuse of psychiatric institutions for political reasons in the USSR. The facts galvanized human rights activists worldwide (including inside the country), and was a pretext for his subsequent arrest in January 1972, for contacts with foreign journalists and possession and distribution of samizdat (70-1, 7 years of imprisonment plus 5 years in exile). 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... West is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Samizdat (self-published, in Russian самиздат) was a grassroots strategy to evade officially imposed censorship in the Soviet-bloc countries wherein people clandestinely copied and distributed government-suppressed literature or other media. ...

In December of 1976, while imprisoned, Bukovsky was exchanged for former Chilean Communist leader Luis Corvalan. 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

Since 1976 Mr. Bukovsky lives in Cambridge, England. He received a Ph.D. in Biology and has written several books and political essays. In addition to criticizing the Soviet regime, he also picked apart what he calls "Western gullibility", a lack of a tough stand of Western liberalism against Communist abuses. The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Main article: Life There are many universal units and common processes that are fundamental to the known forms of life. ... Note: This is not an article about Liberalism in the United States or in any other specific country, but it discusses liberalism as a world wide ideology. ...

In 1992, after the Collapse of the Soviet Union, the new Russian government invited Bukovsky to serve as an expert to testify at the trial conducted by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation to determine whether the CPSU had been a criminal institution. To prepare for his testimony, Bukovsky requested and was granted access to a large number of documents from Soviet archives. Using a small handheld scanner and a laptop computer, he managed to secretly scan many documents (some with high security clearance), including KGB reports to the Central Committee, and smuggle the files to the West. It took two years and a team of assistants to merge the pieces together. As this incident attracted international attention, Bukovsky was designated persona non grata in "new" Russia since 1996. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ... The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, is the highest court in that jurisdiction and functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be appealed. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when... for other uses please see Crime (disambiguation) A crime is an act that violates a political or moral law. ... Laptop with touchpad. ... Classified information is secret information to which access is restricted by law or corporate rules to a particular hierarchical class of people. ... The Committee for State Security, or KGB, (Russian: Комите́т Госуда́рственной Безопа́сности; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti   listen?), was the name of the main Soviet Security Agency and intelligence agency, as well as the main secret police agency from March 13, 1954 to November 6, 1991. ... The 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China meets in 2002 The Central Committee is a leading body of an organization, most often a political party, especially Communist parties. ... West is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... Persona non grata (plural personae non gratae), literally an unwelcome person, is a term generally reserved for diplomats. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Publications

• "Soul of Man Under Socialism", 1979
• "To Build a Castle: My Life As a Dissenter", 1979
• "Soviet Hypocrisy and Western Gullibility", 1987
• "Judgement in Moscow" ("Московский процесс") based on his 1992 visit to Russia and the "Soviet Archives".

External links

• Faces of Resistance in the USSR: V. Bukovsky. The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center at Brandeis University
• the "Soviet Archives" at INFO-RUSS
  • Dissidents, 1970-1979 contain materials concerning activities, arrests and exchange of Bukovsky
• An Open Letter to President G.W. Bush by Vladimir Bukovsky and Elena Bonner (2003-03-27)