Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik (, 12 May 1938, Moscow – 12 November 1980, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain), alternatively spelled ''Andrei'' or ''Andrey'', was a Soviet writer and dissident.
Amalrik was best known in the Western world for his 1970 essay, ''Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?''.
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