To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter (1978)

by Vladimir Bukovsky

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The author describes his incarceration in prisons, labor camps, and psychiatric hospitals for expressing his reservations about the inequities and injustices in ordinary Russian life. -- Dust jacket.

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I denne boka skriver forfatteren om sine år som internert "pasient" på psykiatrisk klinikk - en straff han fikk fordi han hadde skrevet samfunnskritiske artikler mot det russiske regimet. Etter press fra Vesten slapp han gjennom Jernteppet. Livet i Vesten ble imidlertid ikke helt slik han hadde tenkt. Det som har gjort sterkest inntrykk på ham er den likegyldighet folk fra Vesten har til grunnleggende borgerrettigheter som frihet, retten til å velge, ytringsfriheten etc. Samt hangen til å la oss underholde av intetsigende ting ... Sånn sett en meget tankevekkende bok! (

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Scammell, Michael	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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И возвращается ветер

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1978 (UK English)

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They say that if you bring a deep-sea diver too quickly to the surface he may die, or at the very least feel the blood boiling in his veins and everything bursting inside.

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It was December 1976, and I really had very little time left to do - some five months or so in Vladimir Prison, before returning to my old camp, No. 35, in Perm Province, for about ten more months.

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The author describes his incarceration in prisons, labor camps, and psychiatric hospitals for expressing his reservations about the inequities and injustices in ordinary Russian life. -- Dust jacket.

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