Arkady Iosifovich Vaksberg (Russian:Аркадий Иосифович Ваксберг) (11 November 1927 – 8 May 2011) was a Soviet and Russian lawyer, investigative journalist, writer on historical subjects, film maker and playwright.
Biography
Vaksberg was born in
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siber ...
in 1927 (some sources give 1933). He graduated from the law faculty of
Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...
in 1952. He joined the Soviet Writers' Union in 1973. That same year he began working as a journalist at
Literaturnaya gazeta.
He was the author of many books, some of which have been translated into English.
Vaksberg died in Moscow in 2011.
English translations
*''Arkady Vaksberg, Stalin's Prosecutor: The Life of Andrei Vyshinsky'' 1992
*''Stalin Against the Jews'' 1995
*''The Murder of Maxim Gorky: A Secret Execution'' 2007
*Toxic Politics (translated by Paul McGregor)
References
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Soviet journalists
Russian investigative journalists
Soviet writers
Jewish journalists
Jewish Russian writers
Writers from Novosibirsk
Russian lawyers
Moscow State University alumni
Soviet Jews
1927 births
2011 deaths