Yuri Gastiew

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Yuriy Gastiev (born on March 22, 1928 in Moscow, October 12, 1993 in Boston) - mathematician, philosopher, social activist, Stalinist prisoner. Curriculum vitae

Son of Alexei Gastiev, revolutionary, scientist, poet, activist of Proletkult, shot in 1939. During the war he worked in a weapon factory in Sverdlovsk. Student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University. Member of the Brotherhood of Poor Sybaryts (Братство нищих сибаритов). In 1945, he was arrested for political reasons together with other members of the Brotherhood, sentenced to 4 years in labor camps. He served his sentence in the Komi Republic. Released in 1949. In 1953 he returned to Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute.

A specialist in the field of mathematical logic and the philosophy of science. In 1971 he obtained a doctoral degree, which he was deprived of after he emigrated from the USSR. He worked at the Institute of Social Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, lectured at the philosophy department of the Moscow State University (until 1974). He translated publications in the field of mathematics. A member of the mathematical science section devoted to cybernetics at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. A member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, expelled from him in the late 70s. An active defender of human rights since the late 1960s. He signed a letter from the children of the communists, repressed in Stalin's times (1967). Author of many articles printed in samizdat. His memories about the process of the Brotherhood of Poor Sybaryts were published in the first issue of the magazine Pamięć (Pamir) published in New York in 1978. From 1970, he worked closely with the bulletin of the human rights movement "Chronicle of current events" (Хроника текущих событий). He has been subjected to interrogations and searches many times. In 1981 he emigrated to France and then to the United States. He published in the Russian-language press: "Russian Thought" (Русская мысль), "New Russian Word" (Новое русское слово), "New American" (Новый американец). Bibliography

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