Roy Medvedev, a Russian politician and writer, died on February 13, 2026, at the age of 100.
Born in Tbilisi in 1925, he was known for his human rights activism and participation in the dissident movement in the Soviet Union. He wrote Let History Judge, a dissident history of Stalinism first published in English in 1972.
During the Soviet era, Medvedev criticized Joseph Stalin and Stalinism, and he was engaged in samizdat publications in the early 1960s.
Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Russian: Рой Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; 14 November 1925 – 13 February 2026) was a Russian politician and writer. He was the author of the dissident history of Stalinism, Let History Judge (К суду истории), first published in English in 1972.