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

• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (442 p.)
• Disciplina: 323/.092; B
• Soggetto topico: Human rights workers - Soviet Union; Dissenters - Soviet Union
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RubensteinJoshua GribanovAlexander <1945->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov
• ISBN: 1-281-73018-1; 9786611730185; 0-300-12937-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451788303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Annals of Communism.