A Questions Of Madness: Repression by Psychiatry in the Soviet Union

by Zhores A. Medvedev, Roy A. Medvedev

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Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today.… (more)

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A short but tedious read - one is astounded at the levels of bureaucracy in post war Russia (1970's). Frightening too that a sane person who speaks out or writes a book could end up confined to a mental hospital. (

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Zhores A. Medvedev	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Medvedev, Roy A.	—	main author	all editions	confirmed

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Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today.

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