Arseni Borisovich Roginsky

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Arseni Roginski (2012)

Arseni Borissowitsch Roginski ( Russian Арсений Борисович Рогинский ; born March 30, 1946 in Welsk , Arkhangelsk Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ; died December 18, 2017 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was a Russian historian and human rights activist .

Life

Roginski's father was an engineer from Leningrad who had been transferred to the Gulag . Roginski graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tartu in 1968. He worked as a bibliographer and school teacher for Russian language and literature. As a scientist, he studied the history of the Soviet Union, particularly in the 1920s. He dealt in detail with the destruction of the Social Revolutionary Party by the Bolsheviks .

From 1975 to 1981 he published in samizdat , since 1978 also abroad. He was the editor of the underground magazine Pamjat (Память - memory). He refused to be deported to Israel. He was arrested on August 12, 1981 and sentenced to four years imprisonment on a false accusation. The last word in court he gave the speech “The situation of the historian in Russia” (published in the Paris newspaper Russkaya Mysl , in German translation published in Kontinent , No. 23). He had to serve his full sentence. Freed since 1985, he was fully rehabilitated in 1992.

In 1988 Roginski was a founding member of the Memorial Society , which campaigns for human rights and the coming to terms with the history of Stalinism . With others he accepted the Lew Kopelew Prize for Peace and Human Rights in Cologne for Memorial . On February 16, 2010 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • Arseni Roginski, Jörg Rudolph, Frank Drauschke, Anne Kaminsky (eds.): Shot in Moscow ...: The German victims of Stalinism in the Moscow Donskoye cemetery 1950–1953 . 3. Edition. Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-14-7 .
  • Arseni Roginski: After the conviction: The Donskoe cemetery and its Austrian victims . In: Stefan Karner, Barbara Stelzl-Marx (Ed.): Stalin's last victims: Deported and shot Austrians in Moscow 1950-1953 . tape 5 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58936-8 .
  • Arseni Roginski: Fragmented Memory: Stalin and Stalinism in Russia Today . In: Eastern Europe . tape 1 , 2009 ( (full text) ).
  • Arseni Roginski: Memory and Freedom: The Stalinism Discussion in the USSR and Russia . In: Eastern Europe . tape 4 , 2011 ( (full text) ).
  • Arseni Roginski: Чем Сталин жив? (“How Stalin Lives On”) . In: Континент (continent) . No. 138 , 2008 (Russian, magazines.russ.ru ).
  • Nikita Petrov, Arseni Roginski: The “Polish operation” of the NKVD, 1937–1938 . In: Barry McLoughlin, Kevin McDermott (Eds.): Stalin's terror. High politics and mass repression in the Soviet Union . Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2003, ISBN 1-4039-0119-8 , pp. 153-172 (English).

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SURNAME Roginski, Arseni Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roginsky, Arseny; Рогинский, Арсений Борисович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian historian and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Welsk , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 2017
Place of death Israel