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This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions may be available. (May 2010) Alexander Ogorodnikov- Former chairman of the Russian Orthodox Argentov Seminar, peace activist, gulag survivor and founder of several Russian humanitarian organizations. Despite Alexander Ogrodnikov’s lack of widespread name recognition outside of the republics of the former Soviet Union, he is significant historically because he was jailed during one of the Soviet Union’s most aggressive crackdowns on religious activity since the Stalinist era. This period had been preceded by a period in which the repressive policies of Stalin had been lightened by Krusheshev. (1) During the 1970s the Soviets restarted the zeal of the communist government’s policy to use the state to rid society of religious influence. (2) Alexander was born to a father who was a member of the Communist Party while his grandmother secretly arranged his baptism. (3) Alexander was famously singled out because his religious convictions defied Soviet “science” regarding the eradication of religious belief. Soviet doctrine was that one who had been educated in the Soviet schools or in communism, but remained religious was mentally ill. In Alexander’s case, he had converted after receiving his education in the Soviet school and after being educated in communism. In 1974, as a Russian Orthodox Neophyte, Alexander founded a philosophical society with a religious basis. Alexander had been a graduate student at the University of the Urals in Sverdlovsk, and was expelled for attempting to make a film about religious life. (4) In 1976 at the age of 25, Alexander was jailed in an institution that in the west would be jokingly referred to as a hospital “for the criminally insane.” The legal basis for Alexander’s confinement was that his religious conviction was a mental disorder (due to its beginning and persistence coming after he received his education). Public protest encouraged the Soviet authorities to release him, by this time Alexander had received neuroleptics. (5). Alexander was again jailed from 1978 until 1987, when he was released by Gorbachev under the period referred to as Glasnost. (6). Shortly after the fall of communism Alexander returned to Moscow in 1995 and set up the Christian Democratic Union of Russia and the Christian Mercy Society. In 1995 Alexander started what was among other things a drug treatment facility, the Island of Hope. (7). In 1999 Alexander was interviewed following a Russian Orthodox Liturgy in Amsterdam, Holland, in which he described in detail life inside of a Soviet Gulag, specifically Perm 36, near the Siberian border where he had been jailed. (8). References 1. William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 2. Dimitry V. Pospielovsky. A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory, and Practice, and the Believer, vol 1: A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti-Religious Policies, St Martin's Press, New York (1987) pg 111-112 3. http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/2010/03/searching-for-kitezh.html 4. Id. 5. Dimitry V. Pospielovsky. A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer, vol 2: Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and Persecutions, St Martin’s Press, New York (1988) pg 180-181 6. http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/2010/03/searching-for-kitezh.html 7. Id. 8. Id. Persondata Name Ogorodnikov, Alexander Alternative names Short description Date of birth Place of birth Date of death Place of death