SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Anatoly Marchenko

1938 - 1986

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Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko (Russian: Анато́лий Ти́хонович Ма́рченко, 23 January 1938 – 8 December 1986) was a Soviet dissident, author, and human rights campaigner, who became one of the first two recipients (along with Nelson Mandela) of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought of the European Parliament when it was awarded to him posthumously in 1988. Marchenko, originally an apolitical oil driller from a poor background, turned to writing and politics as a result of several episodes of incarceration starting in 1958, during which he began to associate with other dissidents. Marchenko gained international fame in 1969 through his book, My Testimony, an autobiographical account written after his arrival in Moscow in 1966 about his then-recent sentences in Soviet labour camps and prisons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anatoly Marchenko has received more than 98,909 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Anatoly Marchenko is the 344th most popular social activist (up from 346th in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,217th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 344 out of 840. Before him are Ho Jong-suk, Harry Wu, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Greta Thunberg, Gaius Hostilius Mancinus, and Catherine Breshkovsky. After him are Sumner Paine, Lempira, Sophie Adlersparre, Mehdi Huseynzade, Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, and Dorothy Day.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 230. Before him are Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, José Torres, Andrei Amalrik, Theodor Kallifatides, Roger Hunt, and Jean Rollin. After him are Pachín, Imre Földi, Tiziano Terzani, Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria, Moshe Safdie, and Masakatsu Miyamoto. Among people deceased in 1986, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 116. Before him are Vitaly Abalakov, Dick Scobee, Fumiko Enchi, James H. Wilkinson, Oscar Zariski, and Josef Kammhuber. After him are Helen B. Taussig, Hoàng Văn Thái, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, David Cooper, Robert Stevenson, and Géza von Radványi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 1,163 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Diterikhs (1874), Zinaida Greceanîi (1956), Vasily Rozanov (1856), Catherine Breshkovsky (1844), Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), and Elena Obraztsova (1939). After him are Pyotr Saltykov (1698), Pavel Batov (1897), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Gennadiy Aygi (1934), Alexey Venetsianov (1780), and Stanisław Leśniewski (1886).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Anatoly Marchenko ranks 26. Before him are Feodosia Morozova (1632), Pavel Pestel (1793), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), Yuri Levitan (1914), Natalya Estemirova (1958), and Catherine Breshkovsky (1844). After him are Peter Arshinov (1887), Zinaida Portnova (1926), Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790), Tatyana Baramzina (1919), Marina Oswald Porter (1941), and Sophie Liebknecht (1884).

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