Valery Nikolayevich Chalidze
Valery Nikolajewitsch Chalidze ( Georgian ვალერი ჭალიძე; Russian Валерий Николаевич Чалидзе ; English transcription Valery Chalidze ; born November 25, 1938 in Moscow ; † January 3, 2018 in Benson , Vermont ) was a Georgian -US author and publisher Soviet Union a human rights activist and dissident.
Chalidze studied physics in Moscow and Tbilisi . From the mid-1960s he became involved in human rights in the Soviet Union. He founded the samizdat magazine The Social Problems (Obshchestvennye problemy) and founded the Moscow Committee for Human Rights in 1970 with Andrei Sakharov and Andrei Tverdoklebov . After a lecture trip to the USA in 1972, Chalidze was refused his return trip and his Soviet citizenship was revoked.
Chalidze settled in New York City and published Russian-language books and a magazine for his Khronika Press publishing house that accurately recorded human rights violations in the Soviet Union (Khronika tekushchikh sobytij, The Chronicle of Current Events). In his publishing house Chalidze Publications, founded in 1979, he published books in Russian and English that were not accessible due to censorship in the Soviet Union, including the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev and books on political philosophy and sociology. After his marriage to Lisa Leah Barnhardt in 1981, he moved to Benson (Vermont) , which also became the headquarters of his publishing houses.
Chalidze also published his own works, for example on the Soviet dissident movement ( The Soviet Human Rights Movement 1984), Criminal Russia - Essays on Crime in the Soviet Union , 1977, on Stalin ( Conqueror of Communism , 1981) and Leo Trotsky and works by Trotsky himself from the Trotsky Archives at Harvard University . Chalidze also published books on the application of the concept of entropy in economics and neuroscience and paleolinguistics
In 1990 he published the first Russian translation of the Federalist Papers on behalf of the US government, which US President George HW Bush then presented to Soviet President Gorbachev as a gift.
In 1985 he became a MacArthur Fellow .
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary , accessed January 22, 2018
- ↑ Chalidze Entropy demystified - Potential order, life and money , Universal Publishers 2000. Article on Chalidze in Encyclopedia of human thermodynamics
- ^ On the linguistic brain code 1985, Brain code and Paleolinguistics , 1986, each self-published
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| SURNAME | Chalidze, Valery Nikolaevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Čalidze, Valerij Nikolaevič; Chalidze, Valery N .; Чалидзе, Валерий Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian-American dissident and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 2018 |
| Place of death | Benson , Vermont |