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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777783403321

Titolo

The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov ; with an introductions by Joshua Rubenstein ; documents translated by Ella Shmulevich, Efrem Yankelebich, and Alla Zeide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-73018-1

9786611730185

0-300-12937-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (442 p.)

Collana

Annals of Communism

Altri autori (Persone)

RubensteinJoshua

GribanovAlexander <1945->

Disciplina

323/.092

B

Soggetti

Human rights workers - Soviet Union

Dissenters - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Emergence of a Public Activist -- CHAPTER TWO. Who's Afraid of an Organized Opposition? -- CHAPTER THREE. Counterattack -- CHAPTER FOUR. Bitter Air of Exile -- CHAPTER FIVE. New Rules of Engagement -- Annotated List of KGB Documents -- Glossary of Names -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.