24 Facts About Andrei Amalrik

Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik, alternatively spelled Andrei or Andrey, was a Soviet writer and dissident.

Andrei Amalrik was born in Moscow, during the time of Joseph Stalin's purges.

Andrei Amalrik's father fought in World War II in the Northern Fleet and then the Red Army.

Andrei Amalrik was overheard uttering negative views about Stalin's qualities as a military leader, which led to his arrest and imprisonment; he feared for his life, but shortly afterward was released to rejoin the army.

Andrei Amalrik's father developed a serious heart condition which required constant nursing.

In high school, Andrei Amalrik was a restless student and truant.

Andrei Amalrik refused to modify his views and was expelled from Moscow University.

Andrei Amalrik became close to the unofficial youth literary group SMOG.

Andrei Amalrik's plays and an interest in modern non-representational art led to Andrei Amalrik's first arrest in May 1965.

Andrei Amalrik was freed briefly and then rearrested and sent to exile in a farm village near Tomsk, in Siberia.

Thanks to the efforts of his lawyer, his sentence was overturned in 1966 and Andrei Amalrik returned to Moscow, moving with Gyuzel into a crowded communal apartment with shared bath, kitchen, and telephone.

Andrei Amalrik often met with foreign correspondents to relay protests, took part in vigils outside courthouses and even gave an interview to an American television reporter.

In June 1966, after being released early from exile, Andrei Amalrik returned to Moscow.

Andrei Amalrik got a job as a freelancer at the Novosti Press Agency.

Andrei Amalrik handed over to a foreign correspondent the "Memorandum" of Andrei Sakharov.

Andrei Amalrik's apartment was twice searched, in May 1969 and February 1970.

Andrei Amalrik predicted the collapse of the regime would occur between 1980 and 1985.

Andrei Amalrik was incorrect in some of his predictions, such as a coming military collision with China, and the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred in 1991, not 1984.

Andrei Amalrik predicted that when the breakup of the Soviet empire came, it would take one of two forms.

Inevitably, for "defaming the Soviet state", Andrei Amalrik was arrested on May 21,1970 and convicted on November 12, receiving a sentence of three years in a labor camp in Kolyma.

Andrei Amalrik made a farewell tour of Russia before emigrating.

Andrei Amalrik worked in the Netherlands at the Utrecht University, then moved to the United States to study and lecture.

Andrei Amalrik urged that Western trade and technology be linked to liberalization within the Soviet Union.

Mr Andrei Amalrik was instantly killed by a piece of metal, probably from the steering column, which was embedded in his throat, according to the police.