Overview
- Medvedev died on February 13, 2026, with reports saying heart failure is suspected.
- He was widely known as a heterodox Marxist who publicly opposed Joseph Stalin’s rule and pressed for democratization.
- Born in 1925 in what is now Georgia, he graduated from Leningrad University and worked as a teacher and researcher.
- He was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party in 1969 for his criticism of Stalin.
- In 1989, during the Gorbachev era, he was rehabilitated and readmitted to the Communist Party after years of dissent, which included a 1970 letter with physicist Andrei Sakharov urging democratization.