Title Shcharansky, hero of our time / Martin Gilbert.

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New York : Viking, 1986.

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West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies	B SHCHARANSKY ANATOLY G	Check Shelf

Description	xviii, 467 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note	"Elizabeth Sifton books."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-439) and index.
Contents	From Donetsk to Moscow -- The awakening -- Refusenik -- Debates and demonstrations -- Marriage -- Harassment, hope and hope deceived -- To start again -- New pressures, new prisoners -- Helsinki and beyond -- Lists -- The lottery of refusal -- Dangerous times -- Rejoicings, beatings, arrests -- Culture and repression -- "Traders of souls" -- Accusations of espionage -- Arrest -- Seeking to build up a criminal charge -- Awaiting trial -- In court -- Road to judgment -- Judgment -- Prisoner of Zion -- Letters from prison -- "My perpetual optimism" -- Suffering and punishment -- Hunger strike -- Letters, alarms and rumours -- "Truly to become a free person" -- From the Urals to Jerusalem -- Appendix 1 : Prisoners of Zion -- Appendix 2 : Former prisoners of Zion still refused exit visas -- Appendix 3 : Annual emigration of Soviet Jews, 1951 to 1985 -- Bibliography -- Maps -- Index.
Subject	Shcharansky, Anatoly.
	Jews -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
	Refuseniks -- Biography.
	Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
	Civil rights -- Soviet Union.
	Human rights -- Soviet Union.
	Immigrants -- Israel -- Biography.
	Shcharansky, Anatoly. (OCoLC)fst00040217
	Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
	Human rights. (OCoLC)fst00963285
	Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
	Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
	Political prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01069636
	Refuseniks. (OCoLC)fst01093025
	Israel. (OCoLC)fst01204236
	Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
	Politieke gevangenen.
	Dissidenten.
	Joden.
	Russia -- History -- 1917-1991, Soviet Union -- Emigration and immigration -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biographies.
ISBN	0670814180
	9780670814183

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