Medvedev was born to a Jewish family[1] in Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Let History Judge reflected the dissident thinking that emerged in the 1960s among Soviet intellectuals who sought a reformist version of socialism like Medvedev.
Zhores, a dissident biologist, was questioned in the hospital about his involvement with samizdat, and his book The Rise and Fall of T.D.
Medvedev rejoined the Communist Party in 1989, after Mikhail Gorbachev launched his perestroika and glasnost program of gradual political and economic reforms.
[2] In 2008, Medvedev wrote a biography of Vladimir Putin where he gave his activities as president a positive evaluation.