Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric prison-hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union. In 2001, he received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom.
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Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. From the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, he was a prominent figure in the Soviet dissident movement, well known at home and abroad. He spent a total of twelve years in the psychiatric prison-hospitals, labour camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union. In 2001, Vladimir Bukovsky received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom, awarded annually since 1993 by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. He is celebrated for his part in the campaign to expose and halt the political abuse of psychiatry in theSoviet Union. After being expelled from the SovietUnion in late 1976, Bukovsky remained in vocal opposition to the Soviet system and the shortcomings of its successor regimes in Russia. He was a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute in Washington, D. C. and a member of the International Council of the New York City-based Human Rights Foundation. Bukovsky died in London in 2011, aged 87. He leaves behind a wife and three children. He also leaves a son, a daughter and a son-in-law, all of whom are now living in the U.S. and have worked for the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also written a book about his time in the USSR, entitled ‘Theses on the Collapse of the Komsomol’.
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