Aleksandr Ginzburg Samisdat Relived

Soviet dissident who spent 20 years in and out of labour camps, but who was none too pleased to be set free in America

One of the most significant Soviet dissidents, and for 20 years a thorn in the side of the authorities, Aleksandr Ginzburg was the founder of the samizdat poetry journal Syntaxis, the first independent magazine to appear in the Soviet Union.

Birth & Obituary of Dissident Samizdat