Grigory Svirsky
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Grigory Tsezarevich Svirsky (born in 1921 in Ufa) is Russian writer and dissident.
He was a military pilot during World War II (1941-1944), then worked as a journalist. After publishing several books, Svirsky openly criticized censorship in the Soviet Union [1], and all his writings have been forbidden and destroyed in 1968. Svirsky also criticized crashing Prague Spring by Soviet military forces. He was forced to emigrate to Israel on the personal request from KGB director Yuri Andropov in 1972. [2].
He moved to Canada in 1975 and started teaching Russian literature in University of Toronto and University of Maryland. He published numerous fiction and non-fiction books, short stories, and plays. He was also an active participant of political discussions in RuNet, Russian blogosphere. One of his books, "Anastasiya", was about the influence of Internet operations by FSB on lifes of bloggers who discuss political subjects.
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[edit] His books
- Dead end of Lenin, Moscow, Publishing house "Soviet writer", 1962. Full text in Russian
- Hostages: The personal testimony of a Soviet Jew. Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1976, ISBN 0-370-10328-9. Full text in Russian
- Polar tragedy, Frankfurt, "Posev", 1976. Full text in Russian, French translation: Tragedie Polarie, Quine, Montreal, 1978.
- Breakthrough, New York, 1983. ISBN 5-860-90141-0 Four chapters in Russian, Hebrew translation: Hapriza by Maoz, Israel, 1990.
- At the execution place. The literature of moral resistance, 1946-1986. Moscow, 1992. Full text in Russian English version: A history of post-Soviet writing (The literature of the Moral Opposition), Ardis, Ann Arbor, USA, 1981, ISBN 0-882-33449-2.
- Soviet penal battalions Full text in Russian
- Luba means "love" or never-ending Nord-Ost. A non-fiction story. Jerusalem, 2004 Full text in Russian
- Anastasya. A story on-line (Full text in Russian)
- Farewell to Russia, New York, 1986 ISBN 0-938-92080-4 Full text in Russian
- Mother and step-mother, "Scholar", Toronto, Canada, 1990. ISBN 1-895-39901-7 Full text in Russian
- Forbidden story, "Scholar", Toronto, Canada, 1990. Full text in Russian
- Escape, Jerusalem, 1994 Full text in Russian
- Little Andrei, Moscow, 1998. Full text in Russian
- On the islands of George Washington, New York, 1998 Full text in Russian
- Fuel pump kings. Russian gangsters in America 2000. Full text in Russian
- Masters of disguise. A story of Russian leaders. Moscow. 2002. ISBN 5-900-81648-6 Full text in Russian
- My Galich, a story of Alexander Galich Full text in Russian
