Bukovsky, Vladimir, 1942-

Identifier
990002318330304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1971 - 31 Dec 1979
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Note(s)

  • ports

  • Envelope 4/38 ; microfilm reel 054 ; Frames 1818 - 1918

  • 80 newspaper clippings

  • Vladimir Bukovsky is a leading member of the dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s, writer, neurophysiologist, and political activist. He was one of the first to expose the use of psychiatric imprisonment against political prisoners in the Soviet Union. He spent a total of twelve years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and in psikhushkas, forced-treatment psychiatric hospitals used by the government as special prisons. in 1976 he was exchanged by the Soviet government for the imprisoned Chilean Communist leader Luis Corvalán. After his release he settled in the United Kingdom -- (Wikipedia)

Subjects

  • Bukovsky, Vladimir,--1942
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