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Refusenik : trapped in the Soviet Union / Mark Ya. Azbel ; edited by Grace Pierce Forbes.
LIBRA - Rare DS135.R95 A937 1987 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Azbelʹ, M. I︠A︡. (Mark I︠A︡kovlevich)
- Dyson, Freeman J., author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Azbelʹ, M. I︠A︡. (Mark I︠A︡kovlevich).
- Azbelʹ, M. I︠A︡.
- Azbelʹ, M. I͡A. (Mark I͡Akovlevich).
- Jews--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Jews.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Soviet Union.
- Israel.
- Refuseniks--Biography.
- Refuseniks.
- Physicists--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Physicists.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration--Biography.
- Soviet Union--Emigration and immigration--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 513 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [First paperback edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Paragon House Publishers, [1987]
- Notes:
- "First paperback edition, 1987."
- Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
- Foreword (p. xi-xiii) by Freeman J. Dyson.
- Includes index.
- Book I. Prologue; Thirty-five centuries; Who I am; War; Novosibirsk; Alien home; Peacetime; New thoughts; Decisions and discoveries; Kharkov State University; Fear; Poison and antidote; Steps; Introduction to the KGB; Landau and Kapitza; Thaw and frost; A breath of air; Electron theory of metals; Trouble, Changes; New ties; Moscow; Lefortovo; The Sinyasvsky-Daniel trial; Over the crest; Dissent; Outer limits; Lodestar; Hope; Courage and cowardice; The Visa Department -- Book II. Confessions; Deadlock; Hunger strike; A victory; Invitations; Partings; Traps; Stone walls and iron bars; Lucia; Friends and enemies; In search of cover; Another farewell; Battle fatigue; Flight and close pursuit; Arsenal; Questions; Bad news; Broader horizons; Under fire; Life sentence; A life split in two; On the rack; Epilogue.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Pennsylvania Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has page with underlines and marginal marks marked with yellow post-it.
- ISBN:
- 9780913729656
- 0913729655
- OCLC:
- 14905896
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