What is Roy Medvedev?
'''Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev''' ({{lang-ru|Рой Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев}}; born 14 November 1925) is a [[Russia]]n [[political writer]]. He was an author of the [[dissident]] history of [[Stalinism]]. His best known work, ''Let History Judge'' ({{lang-ru|К суду истории}}), first published in English in 1972. Medvedev was born in [[Tbilisi]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. His twin brother was biologist and Russian dissident [[Zhores Medvedev]]. Medvedev rejoined the [[Communist Party]] in 1989, after [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] launched his [[perestroika]] and [[glasnost]] program. He was elected to the Soviet Union's [[Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union|Congress of People's Deputies]] and was named as member of the [[Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union|Supreme Soviet]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Vishnevsky, Boris|title=Praising ode|url=http://en.novayagazeta.ru/politics/8593.html|work=[[Novaya Gazeta]]|date=25 January 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518084706/http://en.novayagazeta.ru/politics/8593.html|archive-date=18 May 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Medvedev, Roy}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Russian political writers]] [[Category:Russian communist politicians]] [[Category:Writers from Tbilisi]]