Vladimir Bukovsky (1942?2019) was a Soviet political dissident, author, and fierce activist on behalf of freedom and human rights. Expelled from Moscow University for an essay that put the Communist Youth League in a bad light, he was arrested shortly thereafter for producing and possessing material critical of the Soviet Union. Bukovsky was then declared mentally ill and institutionalized/imprisoned for twelve years before being exiled to the West as part of a prisoner swap. Bukovsky's other books include Soul of Man Under Socialism, Soviet Hypocrisy and Western Gullibility, and Judgement in Moscow. In later years he became a determined critic of Vladimir Putin. Bukovsky received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom in 2002.