The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov
by Joshua Rubenstein
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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. show more 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. show lessTags
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Joshua Rubenstein is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and a longtime associate at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian Studies Back, Solomon Mikhoels and Itsik Fefer with New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
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Annals of Communism (2005)
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- The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov
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- 2005
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- Andrei Sakharov; KGB
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 323.092 — Society, government, & culture Political science Civil Rights & Liberties/ Human Rights Civil Rights Biography And History Biography
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- JC599 .S58 .K43 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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