WRITER

Andrei Amalrik

1938 - 1980

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Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik (Russian: Андре́й Алексе́евич Ама́льрик, 12 May 1938, Moscow – 12 November 1980, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain), alternatively spelled Andrei or Andrey, was a Soviet writer and dissident. Amalrik was best known in the Western world for his 1970 essay, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Amalrik has received more than 103,618 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Andrei Amalrik is the 3,024th most popular writer (down from 2,843rd in 2019), the 1,119th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,017th in 2019) and the 131st most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Nose! Nose? No-Se and Other Plays
1973
Will the Soviet Union survive until 1984?
History
1980
Involuntary journey to Siberia
Intellectuals
1970
L 'Union Sovietique survivra-t-elle en 1984
Foreign Language Study
Vous êtes vendeur, commerçant, vous travaillez dans le secteur de l'hôtellerie, du prêt-à-porter, du tourisme, dans une banque, un cabinet médical... Vous êtes en contact avec des clients anglophones et vous ne savez pas comment leur parler ou leur répondre ? En 30 chapitres, cet ouvrage vous propose : les phrases indispensables pour vous exprimer et comprendre vos interlocuteurs, le vocabulaire spécifique à chaque profession, des exercices d'application, des informations sur les particularités culturelles de vos clients anglo-saxons, un lexique général.
1977
Will the Soviet Union survive until 1984?
Politics and government, Russia, Social conditions
1970
Involuntary journey to Siberia
Biography, Political prisoners
1970
Involuntary journey to Siberia
Biography, Political prisoners
1970
L 'Union Sovietique survivra-t-elle en 1984
1977
Involuntary journey to Siberia
Intellectuals, Personal narratives, Political prisoners
1970
Pʹesy
1970
Prosushchestvuet li Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z do 1984 goda?
Politics and government, Social conditions, Condiciones sociales
1969
Prosushchestvuet li Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z do 1984 goda?
Politics and government, Social conditions, Condiciones sociales
1969
Will the Soviet Union survive until 1984?
Politics and government, Russia, Social conditions
1970
L 'Union Sovietique survivra-t-elle en 1984
1977
Involuntary journey to Siberia
Intellectuals, Personal narratives, Political prisoners
1970
Pʹesy
1970

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrei Amalrik ranks 3,024 out of 7,302. Before him are Bo Carpelan, Antoninus Liberalis, Marius Maximus, Kjell Askildsen, Hans Erich Nossack, and Michael Jackson. After him are Yury Olesha, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Donna Tartt, Jens Baggesen, Nathan Birnbaum, and Sumitranandan Pant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Andrei Amalrik ranks 226. Before him are Behrouz Vossoughi, McCoy Tyner, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, Michael Löwy, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, and José Torres. After him are Theodor Kallifatides, Roger Hunt, Jean Rollin, Anatoly Marchenko, Pachín, and Imre Földi. Among people deceased in 1980, Andrei Amalrik ranks 136. Before him are Marian Spychalski, Roza Eskenazi, Alfred Andersch, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, Gastone Nencini, and Fatmawati. After him are David Janssen, Alfred Neubauer, André Leducq, Sohrab Sepehri, Boun Oum, and John W. McCormack.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Amalrik ranks 1,119 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Atlasov (1661), Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938), Carl Jaenisch (1813), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Vera Alentova (1942), and Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877). After him are Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928), Anatoly Berezovoy (1942), Sergey Solovyov (1820), Yakov Protazanov (1881), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), and Svetlana Medvedeva (1965).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrei Amalrik ranks 131. Before him are Leonid Leonov (1899), Dmitry Likhachov (1906), Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938), Lev Rubinstein (1947), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938). After him are Sergey Solovyov (1820), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Olena Teliha (1906), Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), and Kondraty Ryleyev (1795).

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