Arseny Roginsky
Arseny Borisovich Roginsky | |
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Arseny Roginsky at the Memorial society, 29 April 2012 | |
Native name | Арсений Борисович Рогинский |
Born |
Velsk | March 30, 1946
Citizenship | Soviet Union (1946–1991) → Russia (1991–present) |
Nationality | Russian |
Fields | history |
Institutions | |
Alma mater | University of Tartu |
Notable awards | |
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Arseny Borisovich Roginsky (Russian: Арсе́ний Бори́сович Роги́нский; born 30 March 1946, Velsk) is a Russian historian and human rights activist. He is one of the founders of the international historical and civil rights society Memorial,[1] its head.[2][3]
He was born to a family of a repressed engineer from Leningrad, in his place of exile.
In 1968, he graduated from the History and Philology Faculty of the University of Tartu.
From 1968 to 1981, 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. As a scientist, he studied the 20th-century history of Russia, particularly the 1920s and the history of the destruction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and subsequent political repression in the Soviet Union.
From 1975 to 1981, he was an editor of samizdat collections of historical works Memory being published abroad from 1978.
On 4 February 1977, a search was conducted in Roginsky’s apartment. On 16 June 1977, he was given a warning according to the decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet of 25 December 1972. After another search conducted on 6 March 1979, at the request of the KGB he was fired from the school where he worked. From 1979 to 1981, Arseny Roginsky was registered as a literary secretary of writer Natalia Dolinina and professor Jacob Lurie to avoid charges of "parasitism." In April 1981, Roginsky was urged to emigrate from the Soviet Union but he did not.
On 12 August 1981, Roginsky was arrested on Article 196—"the forgery and the production and sale of forged documents," and accused of transferring materials abroad to anti-Soviet publications such as Pamyat, a historical journal.[4] As a final word in the court, he gave a speech "The situation of a historian in the Soviet Union" (published by the Russkaya Mysl newspaper). He served time in full, was released in 1985 and fully rehabilitated in 1992.[5]
In 1988–1989, he became one of founders of the Historical and Educational, Human Rights and Humanitarian Society Memorial and chairman of its board from 1998.
He is compiler of the 1989 book Memories of Peasant Tolstoyans, the 1910–1930s[6] translated into English in 1993.[7]
Bibliography
- Roginsky, Arseny; Gromova, Tamara [Арсений Рогинский, Тамара Громова], ed. (1989). Воспоминания крестьян-толстовцев, 1910–1930-е годы [Memories of peasant Tolstoyans, the 1910–1930s] (in Russian). Moscow: Kniga.
- Roginsky, Arseny; Edgerton, William, ed. (1993). Memoirs of peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253319110.
- Petrov, Nikita; Roginsky, Arseny [Никита Петров, Арсений Рогинский] (1997). "Польская операция НКВД 1937–1938 гг." [The Polish operation of the NKVD, 1937–1938]. In Guryanov, Alexander [Александр Гурьянов] (ed.). Репрессии против поляков и польских граждан [Repression against the Poles and Polish citizens] (in Russian). Moscow: Звенья. p. 22.
- Petrov, Nikita; Roginskii, Arsenii (2003). "The "Polish operation" of the NKVD, 1937–1938". In McLoughlin, Barry; McDermott, Kevin (eds.). Stalin’s terror. High politics and mass repression in the Soviet Union. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 153–172. ISBN 1403901198.
Awards
- 2002: Class II Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, Estonia, for investigating crimes against humanity[8]
- 2005: Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his efforts in uncovering truth about repressions against Polish people.[9]
- 2010: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his exceptional efforts in research in and the uncovering of the truth about the Katyn massacre[10]
- 2010: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for longtime struggle for the truth, unprejudiced information and memory, courageous commitment to freedom and human rights as well as his strong commitment to concerns of civil society.[11]
External links
- Roginsky in the 2014 Italian documentary L'ombre de Staline (Stalin's Shadow) at the Internet Movie Database
References
- ↑ Glasser, Susan (1 June 2004). "Putin talk worries independent groups". The Washington Post. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
- ↑ Shevtsova, Lilia (2010). Lonely power: why Russia has failed to become the West and the West is weary of Russia. Carnegie Endowment. p. 301. ISBN 0870032984.
- ↑ Parfitt, Tom (31 March 2015). "Proportion of Russians who respect Stalin is growing, poll suggests". The Telegraph.
- ↑ Adler, Nanci (2004). The Gulag survivor: beyond the Soviet system. Transaction Publishers. p. 226. ISBN 0765805855.
- ↑ "Арсений Борисович Рогинский" [Arseny Borisovich Roginsky] (in Russian). Права человека в России. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ Roginsky, Arseny; Gromova, Tamara [Арсений Рогинский, Тамара Громова], ed. (1989). Воспоминания крестьян-толстовцев, 1910–1930-е годы [Memories of peasant Tolstoyans, the 1910–1930s] (in Russian). Moscow: Kniga.
- ↑ Roginsky, Arseny; Edgerton, William, ed. (1993). Memoirs of peasant Tolstoyans in Soviet Russia. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253319110.
- ↑ "Teenetemärkide kavalerid. Nimi: Arsini Roginski"
- ↑ Rej. 60/2005: Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 24 marca 2005 r. o nadaniu orderów
- ↑ M.P. 2010 nr 40 poz. 581 Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 6 kwietnia 2010 r. o nadaniu orderów
- ↑ Memorial-Vorsitzender Roginski erhält Verdienstkreuz: "In der Laudatio wird Roginskis „langjähriger Kampf für Wahrheit, vorurteilsfreie Aufklärung und Erinnerung, sein mutiger Einsatz für Freiheit und Menschenrechte sowie sein engagiertes Eintreten für die Belange der Zivilgesellschaft als Mitglied des Petersburger Dialogs“ hervorgehoben"
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