WRITER

Lev Kopelev

1912 - 1997

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Lev Zalmanovich (Zinovyevich) Kopelev (Russian: Лев Залма́нович (Зино́вьевич) Ко́пелев, German: Lew Sinowjewitsch Kopelew, 9 April 1912 – 18 June 1997) was a Soviet author and dissident. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Kopelev has received more than 131,340 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lev Kopelev is the 2,801st most popular writer (down from 2,670th in 2019), the 411th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 369th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 130k

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  • 53.49

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Khranitʹ vechno
1975
I sotvoril sebe kumira
Political Science
Kopelev chronicles his early eager absorption of and his final tragic disillusionment with Soviet propaganda, recalling events from his carefree Jewish childhood in Kiev to his imprisonment in a labor camp
1978
I sotvoril sebe Kumira
1978
No jail for thought
Biography & Autobiography
1977
Svi︠a︡toĭ doktor Fedor Petrovich
1985
Utoli moi︠a︡ pechali
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lev Kopelev ranks 2,801 out of 7,302. Before him are Macropedius, Takiji Kobayashi, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Frans G. Bengtsson, Denis Davydov, and Rafael de Nogales Méndez. After him are Mouloud Mammeri, Arthur Cravan, Moderata Fonte, Apostolo Zeno, Marija Jurić Zagorka, and Louis of Granada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Lev Kopelev ranks 152. Before him are Ichiji Otani, Melita Norwood, John Cheever, Béla Király, Günter Wand, and Jacques Bergier. After him are Naoto Tajima, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Pierre Grimal, Andre Norton, Juan Carlos Aramburu, and Rudolf Vytlačil. Among people deceased in 1997, Lev Kopelev ranks 118. Before him are Amha Selassie, Ho Feng-Shan, Saw Maung, Harold Robbins, Luigi Villoresi, and King Hu. After him are Jeff Buckley, Paul Carell, Georges Marchais, Francisco Aramburu, K. Shivaram Karanth, and Dick van Dijk.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Kopelev ranks 411 out of 1,365. Before him are Yevgenia Bosch (1879), Jacques Bergier (1912), Lev Mekhlis (1889), Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Israel Zolli (1881), and Grigori Kozintsev (1905). After him are Pyotr Koshevoy (1904), Panteleimon Kulish (1819), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1520), Roman Rudenko (1907), and Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Lev Kopelev ranks 53. Before him are Dmytro Dontsov (1883), Mikołaj Rej (1505), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Valentin Kataev (1897), Maximilian Voloshin (1877), and Israel Zolli (1881). After him are Panteleimon Kulish (1819), Anatoly Rybakov (1911), Rose Ausländer (1901), Yury Olesha (1899), Yury Vlasov (1935), and Nikolay Nosov (1908).

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