Samoilov Eduard Vladimirovich

Samoilov Eduard Vladimirovich

Genus. in Uzbekistan, grew up in Tajikistan. He worked as a worker in geological exploration, a basketball coach, and a sports instructor at a factory. In 1971, he entered the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and independently began studying the rise to power of Joseph Stalin. The result was a book written about fascism. 05/08/1975 arrested by the KGB and charged under Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (“anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”) for attempting to transfer to the West a book about the political struggle in the USSR in the 1920-1960s. In August-September 1975, he was declared insane at the Serbsky Institute and sent for compulsory treatment to a special mental hospital in Tashkent. After his release in April 1979, he lived in Kokand. He was reinstated at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, from which he graduated in 1982. Despite the risk of re-arrest, he continued political science research and by 1982 developed a general theory of totalitarian (fascist) systems, first published in 1992 in the book “The Fuhrers. General theory of fascism" (the second expanded edition was published in 1993).
After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University in 1982, he settled in Kaluga, where he worked first in a large-circulation factory newspaper, then in a regional youth newspaper. In 1987, he moved to Obninsk and worked as his own correspondent for Kaluga regional newspapers.
During perestroika, he achieved a review of his 1975 criminal case and his complete rehabilitation.