Russian writer and scholar (b. Sept. 29/Oct. 29, 1922, Pakhtino, Kostroma district, Russia—d. May 10, 2006, Moscow, Russia), was the prolific author of scholarly books and articles on mathematical logic, notably Philosophical Problems of Many-Valued Logic (1963), as well as a series of richly satiric novels criticizing the Soviet Union, but he was later equally critical of the Western influence on post-Soviet political and economic reforms. Zinovyev was a decorated World War II pilot and accomplished philosopher (1954–76) at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. until the 1976 publication in Switzerland of his satiric samizdat novel Ziyayushchiye vysoty (The Yawning Heights, 1979). This novel angered Soviet leaders, and as a result, Zinovyev was formally dismissed from his academic positions and stripped of his wartime medals. Two years later he was expelled from the Soviet Union. He settled in Munich, where he remained as a writer and academic until he moved back to Russia in 1999.
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