Igor Aleksandrowicz Mielczuk: między nauką a ideologią

In 1976 Igor Melchuk, one of the most outstanding Soviet linguists, was dismissed from the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Science in Moscow. He had failed to pass a recertification and lost his position as senior research associate for his political nonconformism. The present paper aims at presenting the events as well as ideological situation that determined the decision made by Professor Igor Melchuk to emigrate from the Soviet Union.