Soviet dissidents

Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)

Russian writer (1890–1960)

Russian-American poet (1940-1996)

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

1st President of Georgia (1991–92)

Russian author (1884–1937)

Russian philosopher (1874–1948)

Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)

Joseph Stalin's daughter (1926–2011)

Ukrainian writer

Estonian writer, filmmaker and politician; President of Estonia in 1992–2001 (1929-2006)

Soviet writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor

Soviet and Russian writer and singer (1924-1997)

Russian sociologist (1889-1968)

Russian writer (1892–1968)

Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)

Russian writer (1943-2020)

human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov

Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union

Soviet-American writer (1932-2009)

Russian writer and educator

Soviet and Russian writer

Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)

Leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement

Soviet-Russian human rights activist (1927–2018)

Soviet Russian writer and dissident (1932–2018)

Russian academic and politician

Israeli politician (born 1948)

Russian writer (1938–1990)

Ukrainian activist and politician (1937–1999)

Russian terrorist and politician (1884-1941)

Soviet and Russian mathematician (1923-2017)

Russian politician (1950-2014)

Russian author of Jewish ancestry

Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher (1925–1997)

Soviet politician (1892-1940)

The Sixtiers () were а new generation of young intellectuals who reawakened literature and a sense of Ukrainian nationalism within the Soviet intelligentsia. The Sixtiers entered the cultural and political life in Ukraine during the Soviet era of late 1950s and 1960s and expressed elements of humanism, embracing Western literature, while stressing universal socialism by returning to values of Leninism.

Russian philosopher and writer (1922–2006)

Russian Soviet writer, dissident and emigrant (1911–1987)

Russian historian and writer

Russian politician (1930–2021)

Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist (1936–2013)

Russian writer and dissident (1938-1980)

Russian philosopher (1870–1965)

Soviet dissident (1953–1972)

Ukrainian writer, diplomat and dissident

Ukrainian politician (1928-2018)

Soviet musician and writer (1918–1977)

Soviet dissident (1938–1986)

Soviet writer and poet (1925-1988)

Russian poet

Soviet dissident, biologist and writer (1925-2018)

Ukrainian writer, screenwriter (1936–2018)

Lithuanian poet and scholar (born 1937)

Georigan musician and poet

Russian writer and poet (1907–1996)

Soviet physicist and dissident (1924–2020)

Ukrainian soviet writer and poet (1929-1992)

Soviet writer (1912–1997)

Armenian politician and political activist