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9 people

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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Борис Леонидович Пастернак The poet of Doctor Zhivago and the refused Nobel Prize Literature and arts 1890–1960
Petro Grigoryevich Grigorenko Пётр Григорьевич Григоренко Soviet major general who turned dissident to defend human rights and deported nations Military command · Soviet Union state institutions 1907–1987
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Александр Исаевич Солженицын Prisoner Shch-854, who told the world about the Archipelago Literature and arts 1918–2008
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров He built the hydrogen bomb, then turned on the system Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1921–1989
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov Юрий Фёдорович Орлов The physicist who held the Kremlin to the Helsinki human-rights promises it signed Ideology and propaganda · Soviet Union state institutions 1924–2020
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky Андрей Донатович Синявский Abram Tertz, from Novy Mir critic to symbol of the Soviet dissident movement Literature and arts 1925–1997
Zhores Alexandrovich Medvedev Жорес Александрович Медведев The dissident biologist who argued the archives contain no evidence Stalin planned a Jewish deportation Scholarship and theory 1925–2018
Roy Alexandrovich Medvedev Рой Александрович Медведев The Marxist historian who put Stalinism on trial Scholarship and theory · Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1925–2026
Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik Андрей Алексеевич Амальрик Historian and playwright who foresaw the Soviet collapse by 1984 Literature and arts 1938–1980