Vladimir Bukovsky Author

Vladimir Bukovsky (1942–2019) was a Soviet political dissident, author, and fierce activist on behalf of freedom and human rights. Expelled from Moscow University for an essay that put the Communist Youth League in a bad light, he was arrested shortly thereafter for producing and possessing material critical of the Soviet Union. Bukovsky was then declared mentally ill and institutionalized/imprisoned for twelve years before being exiled to the West as part of a prisoner swap. Bukovsky’s other books include Soul of Man Under Socialism; Soviet Hypocrisy and Western Gullibility, and Judgement in Moscow. In later years he became a determined critic of Vladimir Putin. Bukovsky received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom in 2002. Daniel J. Mahoney is professor emeritus at Assumption University, Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and Senior Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College. His books include The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now and The Other Solzhenitsyn: Telling the Truth about a Misunderstood Writer and Thinker.