1. Arseny Borisovich Roginsky was a Soviet dissident and Russian historian.
11 Facts About Arseny Roginsky
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Arseny Roginsky was one of the founders of the International Historical and Civil Rights Society Memorial, and its head since 1998.
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Arseny Roginsky was born into a Jewish family in the town of Velsk to which, under Stalin, his father Boris had been exiled from Leningrad.
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From 1968 to 1981, Arseny Roginsky lived in Leningrad and worked as a bibliographer at the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library, then as a teacher of Russian language and literature in evening schools.
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On 12 August 1981, Arseny Roginsky was arrested under Article 196 of the RSFSR Criminal Code, and accused of transferring materials abroad to "anti-Soviet publications" such as Pamyat.
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Arseny Roginsky was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to four years imprisonment in an ordinary-regime camp.
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Arseny Roginsky served his sentence in full and was released in 1985.
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In 1998 Arseny Roginsky was made board chairman of Memorial and was a major influence on its development.
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Arseny Roginsky wrote about the targeting of Poles during the Great Terror and the citizens of other nations during Stalin's last years.
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In 2012, addressing a round-table discussion in Dnipropetrovsk, Arseny Roginsky touched on the diplomatic aspect of his work as a historian and leading figure in the Memorial Society.
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The names of those arrested and shot or imprisoned by the Soviet security services would form the basis of numerous regional Books of Remembrance published in the 1990s and 2000s and, ultimately, of Memorial's own online database of "The Victims of Political Terror in the USSR" of which Arseny Roginsky was director of research.