| Description |
xii, 465 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-450) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Reports from KGB Chief Andropov to the Central Committee -- A Difficult Birth -- A Soviet Zodiac -- The World Aglow -- War and Love -- "A Change in Everything" -- Chain of Command -- The Savior of Russia -- Complicities -- Critical Mass -- Vita Nuova -- Escalations -- Duel -- The Blessings of Exile -- Astonishing Times -- Epilogue: The Life after Death. |
| Summary |
"Richard Lourie, who translated Sakharov's memoirs, has now written the first full biography of this towering figure of the last century. Drawing on a wide range of sources - including previously secret KGB files, as well as Sakharov's own correspondence - Lourie tells the story of a life intimately bound up with Soviet history. With the H-bomb, Sakharov made the Soviet Union a superpower; with his courage and his moral conviction, he made it accountable to the world for its treatment of its citizens. His untimely death in December 1989 cut short a budding career as a politician, for at the end of his life, Sakharov had been elected to the Congress of People's Deputies and was engaged in a campaign to reform the Soviet constitution." "As a scientist, Sakharov not only helped change the world through the creation of thermo-nuclear weapons, he also engaged in theoretical research whose ultimate significance is yet to be determined. As a Russian, he has been ranked by his own people with Lenin and Stalin in terms of his influence on the country. As a human being, he set a standard for principled dissent and compassion acknowledged the world over."--Jacket. |
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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989.
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Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Physicists -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Human rights workers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.
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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989.
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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989 (OCoLC)fst00052606
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Dissenters. (OCoLC)fst00895401
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Human rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00963353
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Physicists. (OCoLC)fst01063014
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Political prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01069636
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
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Dissidenten.
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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989.
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Dissenters -- Russia -- Biography.
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| Chronological Term |
1953-1985
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Lourie, Richard, 1940- Sakharov. [Waltham, Mass.] : Brandeis University Press : Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England, ©2002 (OCoLC)606735527 |
| ISBN |
1584652071 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781584652076 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9781584652076 |
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