The world of Andrei Sakharov : a Russian physicist's path to freedom / Gennady Gorelik with Antonina W. Bouis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorelik, G. E. (Gennadiĭ Efimovich), author.

Bouis, Antonina W., author.

Standardized Title:

Andreĭ Sakharov. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989.

Sakharov, Andreĭ.

Physicists--Soviet Union--Biography.

Physicists.

Dissenters--Soviet Union--Biography.

Dissenters.

Human rights workers--Russia (Federation)--Biography.

Human rights workers.

Soviet Union--Politics and government--1953-1985.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? This study of Andrei Sakharov as a scientist as well as a public figure aims to examine the real context of Sakharov's life.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: How I Came to Write This Book; Prologue: Pyotr Lebedev: The Pressure of Light and the Pressure of Circumstances; 1 The Emergence of Soviet Physics and the Birth of FIAN; 2 Leonid Mandelshtam: The Teacher and His School; 3 The Year 1937; 4 The Moral Underpinnings of the Soviet Atomic Project; 5 Andrei Sakharov, Tamm's Graduate Student; 6 Sergei Vavilov: The President of the Academy of Sciences; 7 Nuclear Physics under Beria's Command; 8 Russian Physics at the Height of Cosmopolitanism; 9 The Hydrogen Bomb at FIAN; 10 The Installation

11 The "Heroic" Work at the Installation12 Theoretical Physicists in Soviet Practice; 13 The Physics of Social Responsibility; 14 From Military Physics to Peaceful Cosmology; 15 World Peace and World Science; 16 Reflections on Intellectual Freedom in 1968; 17 Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn: The Physics and Geometry of Russian History; 18 On the Other Side; 19 Andrei and Lusya; 20 Freedom and Responsibility; Chronology; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-028877-9

1-280-50246-0

9786610502462

1-4237-2024-5

0-19-534374-3

1-60256-690-9

OCLC:

191038518