The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov / edited and annotated by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov ; with an introduction by Joshua Rubenstein ; documents translated by Ella Shmulevich, Efram Yankelevich, and Alla Zeide.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubenstein, Joshua.

Gribanov, Alexander, 1945-

Series:

Annals of Communism

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti.

Human rights workers--Soviet Union.

Dissenters--Soviet Union.

Dissenters.

Human rights workers.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti--Archives.

Genre:

Archives.

Physical Description:

xxv, 397 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]

Summary:

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. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386) and index.

ISBN:

0300106815

OCLC:

57557418