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Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Alexander Ginzburg |
 | | Alexander Ginzburg, who has died aged 65, is a nostalgic figure of modern times, part of the western myth of the Russia of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, when literature, the word, played a crucial part in political change. |
 | | Ginzburg's arrest in January 1967 was followed, a year later, by a five-year sentence, during which he succeeded in having his marriage to Irina Zholkovskaya registered in the camp guardroom in 1969. |
 | | Ginzburg and his comrades in dissident circles were confused by many in the west with their counterparts there - political activists who attempted to reform the rigid conservatism of capitalist society by the radical, frequently illegal, means available to them. |
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