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Childhood memoir of Elena Bonner telling her story of growing up privilaged in Stalin's Russia and the nightmare that followed.
The wife of the Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov tells the full, uncensored, harrowing story of their years in exile in the Soviet city of Gorky. "A testament to the resilience of love".--The Chicago Tribune. 16 pages of photos.
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.
Collection includes Elena Bonner personal and professional correspondence with friends, family and supporters of human rights cause in Russia and abroad, drafts and galley proofs of her books, her speeches, statements, and essays, and compositions by other authors. It also includes letters, newsletters, brochures, pamphlets, reports and statements by various politicians and political parties and organizations and other material reflecting Elena Bonner's political activities and interests. Personal material in the collection includes documents, membership cards, biographical information about Bonner and her parents, notes, clippings and photographs. The papers also include correspondence of Tatiana and Efrem Yankelevich and Alexei Semyonov regarding Andrei Sakharov Foundation and human rights causes.
DIVAndrei 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. /div
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
The Soviet physicist, dissident, and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The first Russian to have been so recognized, Sakharov in his Nobel lecture held that humanity had a "sacred endeavor" to create a life worthy of its potential, that "we must make good the demands of reason," by confronting the dangers threatening the world, both then and now: nuclear annihilation, famine, pollution, and the denial of human rights.Meeting the Demands of Reason provides a comprehensive account of Sakharov's life and intellectual development, focusing on his political thought and the effect his ideas had on Soviet society. Jay Bergman places Sakha...
Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee since 1990, shares 20 years of experience with the AJC, including working to help Soviet Jewry and his views on the Middle East, other parts of the world, the Holocaust, human rights, international terrorism, making a better America, and the future of American Jewry. His words on anti-Semitism, unsolved bombings in Argentina, and interfaith relations still resonate. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR