Valentin Mikhaylovich Alekseyev (russian: Валентин Михайлович Алексеев) (1924–1994) was a Soviet
historian from
St.Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. His major works could not pass
censorship during the
Soviet times and their publications began only during the ''
perestroika
''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...
'' times, although they have been circulating in ''
samizdat''.
[Peter Cheremushkin, ]
Russian-Polish Relations: A Long Way From Stereotypes to Reconciliation
', ''InterMarium'' Vol. 5 (2002)
The Hungarian government awarded Alekseyev with the
Imre Nagy Medal
Imre is a Hungarian masculine first name, which is also in Estonian use, where the corresponding name day is 10 April. It has been suggested that it relates to the name Emeric, Emmerich or Heinrich. Its English equivalents are Emery and Henry.
...
for his book ''Hungary-56''.
"Humgary-56", book profile
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Bibliography
*''The Warsaw Uprising. Warsaw in the Struggle against the Hitlerist Occupiers'' ("Варшавское восстание: Варшава в борьбе против гитлеровских захватчиков, 1939–1945") 1999, Moscow, ''Akademichesky Projekt'',
*''The Warsaw Ghetto No Longer Exists''
Варшавского гетто больше не существует
, Publication Program of the Memorial Society, Moscow, ''Zvenya Publishers'', 1998, 159pp.
Book review
in '' Novy Mir'', 1999, no.3 )
*'' Hungary-56: The Breach in the Chain'' "Венгрия-56. Прорыв цепи", Moscow, '' Nezavisimaya Gazeta'', 1996.
*'' Czechoslovak Expedition is not Completed Yet'' (''Чехословацкий поход еще не завершен'') In: Погружение в трясину: Анатомия застоя. М. '' Progress Publishers'', 1991. pp. 187–208
*'' Thirteen Years' War: Teacher's Guide''
Тридцатилетняя война: Пособие для учителя
, Leningrad, ''Uchpedgiz
Publishing houses in the Soviet Union were a series of publishing enterprises which existed in the Soviet Union.
Centralization
On 8 August 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) established the state p ...
'', 1961. 183 pp.
References
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1924 births
1994 deaths
Writers from Saint Petersburg
Soviet historians