ENGLISH

The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov

By Joshua Rubenstein , Dr. Alexander Gribanov

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0300106815, 9780300106817, 9780300129373
Open Library ID
OL15581022M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1647008 bytes)
Series
Annals of Communism
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Pages
428\428
Topic
Physics
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and—as a result—a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available during Boris Yeltsin’s presidency. The documents reveal the untold story of KGB surveillance of Sakharov from 1968 until his death in 1989 and of the regime’s efforts to intimidate and silence him. The disturbing archival materials show the KGB to have had a profound lack of understanding of the spiritual and moral nature of the human rights movement and of Sakharov’s role as one of its leading figures.

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