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Kirill Medvedev
Kirill Medvedev (; born 19 June 1975) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russia, Russian activist, musician, translator and author who notably gave up the copyright to all his works in 2004. He is a key member of the musical group "Arkadiy Kots." Early life and education Kirill Medvedev was born on June 19, 1975, in Moscow. His father Feliks was a well-known post-Soviet journalist and writer. From 1992 to 1995 he studied in the history department at the Moscow State University. Career Medvedev published two collections of poetry in his mid twenties: ''Everything is Bad (or It’s No Good)'' and ''Incursion''; these were dismissed by some critics as they were autobiographical free verse, which is unusual among Russian poets. He also translated Charles Bukowski into Russian. In 2003, he renounced his copyright in his "Manifesto on Copyright". Literary scholar Annette Gilbert has interpreted Medvedev’s manifesto and his turning away from the established literary world as a continua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet Union, it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by area, extending across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and sharing Geography of the Soviet Union#Borders and neighbors, borders with twelve countries, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, economy were Soviet-type economic planning, highly centralized. As a one-party state go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |