In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Medvedev.
Zhores Medvedev
Жорес Медведев
Born
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev
(1925-11-14)14 November 1925
Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Died
15 November 2018(2018-11-15) (aged 93)
London, England, UK
Nationality
Russian
Alma mater
Russian State Agricultural University
Known for
Human rights activism and participation in dissident movement in the Soviet Union
Scientific career
Fields
Agronomy, biology, gerontology
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev.
Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian...
Medvedev, Roy; Medvedev, Zhores (November–December 1981). "The USSR and the arms race". New Left Review. 1 (130). Medvedev, Roy; Medvedev, Zhores (1982)...
Vitaly Medvedev (disambiguation) – several people Yukhym Medvedev (1886–1938), first elected chairman of the Soviet parliament in Ukraine ZhoresMedvedev (1925–2018)...
Party of the Soviet Union (24th term) in 1971. According to biographer ZhoresMedvedev, Gorbachev "had now joined the Party's super-elite". As regional leader...
«Сфера» [Publishing house "Sphere"]. ISBN 978-966-7841-36-2. Medvedev, Zhores; Medvedev, Roy (1979). A Question of Madness: Repression by Psychiatry in...
Colonel General Pikalov" (PDF). www.omsa.org. Retrieved 12 June 2019. ZhoresMedvedev: The Legacy of Chernobyl Soviet Military Review, Issue 12 (1987) "Пикалов...
PMID 8178130. Medvedev, Zhores A. (4 November 1976). "Two Decades of Dissidence". New Scientist.[permanent dead link] Medvedev, Zhores A. (1980). Nuclear...
Taubman: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era; 2003; Chapter 11. Roy Medvedev and ZhoresMedvedev, The Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy. Ellen Dahrendorf...
Who's who in Russia since 1900. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13898-1. Medvedev, Zhores; Medvedev, Roy (2006). The Unknown Stalin. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1585675029...
Grigorenko in 1968. In 1971, twin brothers ZhoresMedvedev and Roy Medvedev published in London their joint account of Zhores' incarceration in a psychiatric hospital...
hero. Only his eyes and famous moustache remained unaltered. ZhoresMedvedev and Roy Medvedev say his "majestic new image was devised appropriately to depict...
adopted in 1929, and Svetlana, born in 1930. According to historian ZhoresMedvedev, Stalin was highly suspicious of Zhemchuzhina. He thought that she...
"Serious Accident" on the 0–7 International Nuclear Events Scale. When ZhoresMedvedev exposed the disaster in a 1976 article in New Scientist, some exaggerated...
research unit attached to the Academy of Sciences (1937). According to ZhoresMedvedev, this was made possible by Stalin, who wanted members of the Experimental...
officials were started. Biographers including Solovyov and Klepikova and ZhoresMedvedev have discussed the complex possibilities underlying the motivations...
to be Russian. Solzhenitsyn also praised the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev as a "nice young man" who was capable of taking on the challenges Russia...
(1960), and Phoenix (1961). From 1964 to 1970, communist historian Roy Medvedev regularly published The Political Journal (Политический дневник, or political...
Federation. Retrieved 28 November 2017. Feskov et al. 2013, p. 306. ZhoresMedvedev: The Legacy of Chernobyl Feskov et al. 2013, p. 308. "Russian NBC troops...
of the missile accident, and exiled scientist and Soviet dissident ZhoresMedvedev provided further details in 1976 in the British weekly magazine New...
especially in view of the widely publicized placing of the biologist ZhoresMedvedev in a psychiatric hospital by extrajudicial means. The diagnoses of...
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