India, Feb. 14 -- A prominent critic of Stalin's policies and Soviet- era political analyst and author Roy Medvedev died on Friday at the age of 100, Russia's state media reported. Medvedev, a critic of Marxism practiced by the Communist Party of Soviet Union (CPSU) under Khrushchev and Brezhnev, was expelled from the CPSU in 1969 after his book 'Let History Judge' was published in the West.

His father Alexander, a Commissar in the Red Army, was arrested under Stalin's purges and died in a labour camp part of the GULAG network described by Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzynytsin in The Gulag Archipelago. Medvedev died on Friday at the age of 100, Russian State TV Rossiaya 24 reported, quoting his wife.

The report, however, did not give any...