Eduard Limonov
Russian writer (1943-2020) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 77
He wrote from the radical fringe, built a banned party that fused Soviet nostalgia with nationalist fury, and spent decades as a thorn in the Kremlin's side - a poet who became a politician Moscow couldn't ignore.
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Garry Kasparov Co-founded The Other Russia
Alexander Dugin Co-founded National Bolshevik Party
Mikhail Kasianov Co-founded The Other Russia
Yegor Letov Co-founded National Bolshevik Party
Sergey Kuryokhin Co-founded National Bolshevik Party
Alexander Veledinski Directed It's Russian (2004)
Aleksandr Robak Produced It's Russian (2004)
Maksim Lagashkin Produced It's Russian (2004)
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About this person
Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov was born Savenko on 22 February 1943. He left the Soviet Union in 1974 as a writer and poet, living in emigration for nearly two decades. He returned to Russia in 1991 and founded the National Bolshevik Party, a movement that blended communist imagery with nationalist edge. The party was banned in 2007, replaced by The Other Russia - a coalition of opposition forces he helped lead through the 2000s. He died on 17 March 2020, having spent half his life outside the system and the other half fighting it from within.
