| Description |
xvii, 454 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-444) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Earliest influences : 1921-1945 -- 1. A childhood of culture and ideas -- 2. Expanding horizons -- Pt. II. Designing weapons for the maintenance of peace : 1945-1956 -- 3. Tamm's protege at FIAN -- 4. Arzamas-16--the secret installation -- 5. The "layer cake" and other weapons -- Pt. III. A scientist with a social conscience : 1956-1968 -- 6. Radioactive fallout and other matters of conscience -- 7. Confronting Khrushchev -- 8. The Nuzhdin affair -- 9. A dissident at last -- Pt. IV. Challenging the Soviet goliath : 1968-1973 -- 10. Reflections on progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom -- 11. An equal partner in politics and life -- 12. Moral anchor of a dissident movement -- 13. The regime reacts -- Pt. V. "Domestic enemy number one" : 1973-1980 -- 14. Orchestrated vituperation -- 15. Debating Solzhenitsyn -- 16. Detente and human rights -- 17. Nobel laureate -- 18. The noose tightens -- Pt. VI. In exile, unrepentant : 1980-1986 -- 19. Arrested but still defiant -- 20. Finding hope in quantum physics -- 21. TheSoviet leadership softens -- Pt. VII. The conscience of perestroika : 1986-1989 -- 22. Return to Moscow -- 23. A different kind of perestroika -- 24. The congress of people's deputies -- 25. Apotheosis postmortem -- Conclusion : Sakharov's legacy. |
| Subject |
Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989.
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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989. |
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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Dissenters -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Dissenters. |
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Soviet Union. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Physicists -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Physicists. |
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Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Political prisoners. |
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Human rights workers -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Human rights workers. |
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1953-1985 |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780801447310 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801447313 cloth alkaline paper |
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