Alexander Herzen Foundation

The other trustees were the Dutch historian Jan Willem Bezemer (1921–2000) and the British-American politicologist Peter Reddaway (1939).

[4] The Foundation is named after Alexander Herzen, the Russian philosopher and writer who founded in 1853 an independent publishing house in Russia.

He published, among other pieces, the famous Andrei Sakharov memorandum Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom.

The annotated texts being published in the original language was also important to counteract corrupt editions and bad translations.

The foundation ended in 1998 because the Cold War and the strong repression of the press in Russia and Eastern Europe were over.