Zhores Medvedev
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Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Жорес Медведев) (born in the former USSR on November 14, 1925) is a Russian biologist, historian and dissident. His first name is properly spelled Jaurès, as he was named for the French socialist leader.
He is famous for exposing the nuclear disaster which occurred in the Urals in the fifties. He was one of the earliest victims of official attempts to stifle opposition by detaining dissidents in mental institutions. He was exiled in 1973 from the Soviet Union and now lives with his wife in London where he is a senior research scientist for the National Institute for Medical Research.
He is the author of "The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko" (1969), "The Medvedev Papers" (1971), "Soviet Science" (1978), and "The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals" (1979).
His twin brother Roy Medvedev is a historian, they coauthored Khrushchev: The Years in Power released in 1978. The brothers also wrote several other books.
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- Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy (with Roy Medvedev, Ellen Dahrendorf - Translator) (Overlook Press, 2005) ISBN 1-58567-644-6
- Legacy of Chernobyl (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992) ISBN 0-393-30814-6
- Soviet Agriculture (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988) ISBN 0-393-02472-5
- Gorbachev (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1987) ISBN 0-393-30408-6
- Andropov (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1983) ISBN 0-393-01791-5
- Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (1980) ISBN 0-394-74445-4
- Gorbachev (1986) ISBN 0-631-14782-9
- Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of Development (1970) ISBN 0-306-30403-1
- Medvedev Papers: Fruitful Meetings between Scientists of the World (1971) ISBN 0-333-12520-7
- Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich (1974) ISBN 0-394-71112-2
- Hazards of Nuclear Power (with Alan Roberts) (1977) ISBN 0-85124-211-1
- Secrecy of Correspondence Is Guaranteed by Law (1975) ISBN 0-85124-128-X
- Stalin and the Jewish Question: New Analysis (2003, in russian) ISBN 5-7712-0251-7
- Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: Two Prophets (with Roy Medvedev) (2004, in russian) ISBN 5-94117-065-3
- Rise & Fall Of Trofim D. Lysenko ISBN 0-231-03183-1
- Medvedev Papers: The Plight Of Soviet Science ISBN 3-331-25207-7
- A Question Of Madness (with Roy Medvedev) ISBN 0-14-003783-7
- Nuclear Disaster In The Urals (Trans George Saunders) ISBN 0-207-95896-3
- Khrushchev: The Years In Power (with Roy Medvedev) ISBN 0-8357-0154-9
- National Frontiers & International Scientific Cooperation (Medvedev Papers) ISBN 0-85124-127-1
