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September 9, 1999
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Lev Razgon, a Russian Jewish writer and human rights activists, died at the age of 91. Razgon’s name became famous in the Soviet Union during the late 1980s after he published his memoirs about his years in Stalin’s gulags. When “True Stories” was first published in a Moscow literary journal in 1988 and 1989, the book was recognized as significantly different from most of the literature about the gulags.

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