The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov
By: edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov ; with an introduction by Joshua Rubenstein ; documents translated by Ella Shmulevich, Efrem Yankelevich, and Alla Zeide.
Contributors: Rubenstein, Joshua.; Gribanov, Alexander, 1945-
Series: Annals of Communism
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Sakharov, Andreĭ, -- 1921-; Soviet Union. -- Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- Archives; Human rights workers -- Soviet Union; Dissenters -- Soviet Union
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Andrei Sakharov, the KGB, and the legacy of Soviet dissent --; title: Emergence of a public activist --; title: Who's afraid of an organized opposition? --; title: Counterattack : disorganizing the opposition --; title: Bitter air of exile --; title: New rules of engagement --; title: Annotated list of KGB documents.