Grigory Svirsky

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Grigory Tsezarevich Svirsky (born in 1921 in Ufa) is Russian writer and dissident.

He was a military pilot during World War II (1941-1944), then worked as a journalist. After publishing several books, Svirsky openly criticized censorship in the Soviet Union [1], and all his writings have been forbidden and destroyed in 1968. He was forced to emigrate to Israel on the personal request from Yuri Andropov in 1972 [2].

He moved to Canada in 1975 and started teaching Russian literature in University of Toronto and University of Maryland. He published numerous fiction and non-fiction books, short stories, and plays. He was also an active participant of political discussions in RuNet, Russian blogosphere.

External links (Russian)

His books

Grigory Svirsky. Hostages: The personal testimony of a Soviet Jew. Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group), 1976, ISBN 0-370-10328-9.

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