Aleksandr Jesienin- Wolpin

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Jesienin-Wolpin, Russian Александр Сергеевич Есенин-Вольпин (born May 12, 1924 in Leningrad, March 16, 2016 in Boston) is a Russian mathematician and opposition activist in the USSR, one of the main ideologues of the nascent dissident movement. The mid-60s. Curriculum vitae

His parents were Sergei Jesienin and Nadezhda Wolpin. From 1933 he lived with his mother in Moscow. In 1946 he completed his mathematical studies at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the University of Moscow, and in 1949 he defended his dissertation. In July 1949 he was arrested (he read his own poems recognized as anti-Soviet), was considered mentally ill and sentenced to forced treatment, in 1950 in another ruling he was sentenced to 5 years of exile. He was in the Karaganda circuit. In 1953 he was fired, led mathematical research in Moscow, developed the theory of so-called At the same time, he continued his poetic activity. In 1959 he was again locked up in a psychiatric hospital, staying there for about two years. In 1961, his poems collected in the Spring Book and the Free Philosophical Essay were published in the US (this was the second case when a Soviet citizen published abroad under his own name, without the consent of the Soviet authorities - the first was Boris Pasternak).

Since 1961 he has worked as a non-employee with the Allied Science and Technology Information Institute. In the fall of 1965 he became involved in the defense of the arrested poets, Andrei Siniawski and Julija Daniela. He was the originator of the so-called. On 5 December 1965 demonstrations were held with the demanding public process of these people, which was the symbolic beginning of the activities of the human rights movement in the USSR. In subsequent years he has repeatedly defended human rights. due to the arrest of Alexander Ginzburg and his comrades in the so- process of four. He published a guide for those who are waiting for a hearing (Памятка для тех, кому предстоят допросы). In February 1968 he was once again locked up in a psychiatric hospital, resulting in a broad protest movement of mathematical circles around the world. In 1970 he became an expert on the Human Rights Committee in the USSR. Forced to emigrate, in May 1972 he left for the United States. He worked at the universities of Buffalo and Boston, supported the activities of the human rights movement in the USSR.

In Polish, the volume of Shame was silent. Testimonies of Soviet dissidents, selection and introduction Marek Radziwon, ed. Institute of Books-Nowaya Polsza, Cracow-Warszawa 2013 published his memoirs December 5, 1965. Bibliography

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