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Alexander Galich (; 19 October 1918 – 15 December 1977 ) was a Russian poet, screenwriter, playwright, and singer-songwriter.
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Initially ignored by the state media, bards like Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Alexander Galich gained so much popularity that they finished being distributed by the state owned Melodiya record company.
Galich was born Alexander Aronovich Ginzburg () on 19 October 1918 in Ekaterinoslav ( now Dnipropetrovsk ), Ukraine, into a family of Jewish intellectuals.
Galich is a pen name, an abbreviation of his last name, first name, and patronymic: Ginzburg Alexander Arkadievich.
Influenced by the Russian city romance tradition and the art of Alexander Vertinsky, Galich developed his own voice within the genre.
Its Editorial Board included Raymond Aron, George Bailey, Saul Bellow, Józef Czapski, Robert Conquest, Milovan Djilas, Alexander Galich, Jerzy Giedroye, Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Koestler, Naum Korzhavin, Mihajlo Mihajlov, Ludek Pachman, Alexander Sakharov, Alexander Schmemann, Zïnaida Schakovskoy, Wolf Siedler, Ignazio Silone, Strannik, and Carl-Gustav Ströhm.
Perhaps the most famous NTS member was Alexander Galich, a Russian-Jewish screenwriter and bard whose anti-Soviet songs caused him to be exiled from the USSR.
Samizdat literature smuggled outside of the USSR was published, such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's writings and the poems of Alexander Galich and Bulat Okudzhava.
As his invaluable diaries attest, Chukovsky used his popularity to help the authors persecuted by the regime including Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Alexander Galich and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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