Vladimir Osipov

Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov
Native name Владимир Николаевич Осипов
Born (1938-08-09) August 9, 1938[1]
Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast[1]
Nationality Russian
Known for Editor of Veche (1971-1973)

Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич О́сипов; born 1938[2]) was the founder of the Soviet samizdat journal Veche (Assembly).[3] The journal is considered to be an important document of the nationalist or Slavophile strand within the Soviet dissident movement.[2][4]

Biography

Vladimir Osipov was born in 1938 in Leningrad Oblast.[1]

He entered studies at the History faculty of Moscow State University. He was expelled in 1959 for protesting the arrest of a fellow student, but was able to finish his studies at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.[4]

As a student, Osipov was involved in reviving the informal Mayakovsky Square poetry readings in 1960.[5] During this time, he produced a samizdat (self-published) literary journal Boomerang.[6]

In 1961, Osipov was sentenced to seven years in strict-regime labour camps for "Anti-Soviet propaganda".[2] In the camps, he converted to Christianity.[4] He was released in 1968 and managed to find work as a fireman.[4]

During the years 1971-1973, Osipov produced nine issues of the samizdat journal Veche (Assembly). The journal was to be a "Russian patriotic journal" that followed the tradition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Slavophiles, taking what Osipov called a "Russophile" position.[4]

Osipov also edited the samizdat journal Zemlia (Earth) in 1974, with a more religious orientation. Zemlia carried material by Russian Orthodox dissenters such as Anatoly Levitin-Krasnov.[4]

In 1974, Osipov was arrested, tried, and sentenced to a second term for engaging in "anti-Soviet propaganda".[2]

Osipov took part in the defence of the parliament during the attempted hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August 1991.[7]

During the 1990s and early 2000s, Osipov was active as one of the leaders of the Union "Christian Rebirth" (UCR), which calls for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-02-02. Retrieved 2009-11-26.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Dunlop, John B (1983). The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalism. pp. 44–46. ISBN 978-1-4008-5386-1. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
  3. ↑ Scammell, Michael. Solzhenitsyn. Paladin. p. 775. ISBN 0-586-08538-6.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hammer, Darrell P. (1984). "Vladimir Osipov and the Veche Group (1971-1974): A Page from the History of Political Dissent". Russian Review. 43 (4): 355. doi:10.2307/129530. ISSN 0036-0341. JSTOR 129530.
  5. ↑ Sundaram, Chantal (2006). ""The stone skin of the monument": Mayakovsky, Dissent and Popular Culture in the Soviet Union". Toronto Slavic Quarterly (16).
  6. ↑ Hornsby, Rob (2013). Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union. New studies in European history. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-1-107-03092-3.
  7. 1 2 Shenfield, Stephen D. (2001). Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, Movements. Armonk, NY: Sharpe. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-7656-0635-8.
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