Larisa Bogoraz, 74; Helped Shape Soviet Dissident Movement
Larisa Bogoraz, 74, an early architect of the Soviet dissident movement who rose to prominence in 1968 by helping to lead an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square protesting the Red Army’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, has died of undisclosed causes in Moscow. The exact date of her death was not reported.
Bogoraz was the widow of prominent dissident Anatoly Marchenko and the ex-wife of Yuly Daniel, a satirist and poet who was another influential member of the early dissident movement.
Bogoraz, who earned a doctorate in linguistics in 1965, was one of seven people who protested the invasion of Czechoslovakia in a brief demonstration that led to their arrests. She was sentenced to four years of Siberian exile, which she spent in a woodworking plant.
After her release, Bogoraz continued campaigning for human rights and helped lead a campaign to free all political prisoners.
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