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Sakharov and power : on the other side of the window / Boris Altshuler.

This book is a testimony to the amazing life of Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) -- the great scientist and great man, the creator of the most terrible weapon in the history of mankind and at the same time the Nobel Peace Prize Winner. Sakharov's life is, one might say, an exciting detective story,...

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Main Author: Alʹtshuler, B. L. (Author)
Other title:Sakharov i vlastʹ. English
Сахаров и власть. English
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2023]
Edition:English language edition.
Subjects:
Sakharov, Andreĭ, > 1921-1989 > Quotations.
Dissenters > Soviet Union > Quotations.
Physicists > Soviet Union > Quotations.
Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Quotations.
Human rights workers > Soviet Union > Quotations.
Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1953-1985.
Dissidents > URSS > Citations.
Physiciens > URSS > Citations.
Prisonniers politiques > URSS > Citations.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > URSS > Citations.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement > 1953-1985.
Sakharov, Andreĭ, > 1921-1989.
Dissenters.
Human rights workers.
Physicists.
Political prisoners.
Politics and government.
Soviet Union.
1953-1985
Quotations.
Table of Contents:
  • Vol. 1: from H-bomb to Nobel Peace Prize
  • Beginnings: family, childhood, education, cartridge factory job in the years of WWII, pure science (1921-1947)
  • Bomb and Kremlin (1948-1967)
  • Human rights key to saving mankind (1968-1975)
  • Vol. 2: protection of human rights vs Realpolitik: the past that has not pass
  • Daily routines of human rights struggle, tightening the screws and exile, the Afghan War and the madness of the European nuclear race (1976-1984)
  • Gorbachev's Perestroika (1985-1988)
  • Sakharov
  • a public politician: lessons for the present and future (1989-2022).

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