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English Language Page Alexander Yakovlev, who is considered the main ideologist of perestroika and the glasnost policy of the late 1980s was the outstanding example of a Russian truth-seeker. .Being member of the Politburo (the party’s executive organ) he put lots of efforts to disclose the truth on repression period and totalitarism crimes in USSR. Alexander Yakovlev perceived country’s democracy so that basic human rights and freedoms became elements of the everyday life o f any Russian. He did not only facilitated political changes in Russia but went beyond – all his activities after 1991 as Academic, historian, and scientist were aimed at Russia’s recognition of the catastrophe scale resulted from the bolshevism. The civil dirge will take place on October 21st at 11:30 am in Russian Academy of Sciences (Leninsky prosp., 32-a, area B, embankment entrance (Metro station “Leninsky Prospect”). Yakovlev was born in 1923 in the village of Korolyovo in the Yaroslavl region in the farmer family. Fought in the Red Army in World War II and was badly wounded in 1943. He graduated from the history faculty of Yaroslavl University, joint the Party in 1940s, became a Communist Party apparatchik. Yakovlev was a doctor of history and a corresponding member of the Soviet Union’s Academy of Sciences. From 1969 to 1973, he headed the party’s Department of Ideology and Propaganda. In 1972, he published an article criticizing Russian chauvinism and Soviet anti-Semitism. After that, he was removed from his post and appointed Russia’s ambassador to Canada where he served till 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he headed the Russian Institute of World Economics and International Relations. Starting June 1985 he headed the Propaganda department of the Central Committee of KPSS, became perestroika ideologist. In 1986 he became Central Committee Secretary and in 1987 became the Politburo member. He was among the reformers in the Soviet leadership and the ideologists behind perestroika, as well as being one of Mikhail Gorbachev’s senior advisors. Yakovlev did a lot to liberalize the Soviet media, helped publish banned books and materials. From 1998 he led the Commission for the Rehabilitation of Repression Victims, clearing the names of those persecuted under Soviet rule. Back |
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