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Andrei Sakharov.
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ISBN: 1299462367 9814407429 9789814407427 9789814407410 9814407410 Year: 2013 Publisher: Singapore World Scientific Publishing Company

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In 1980, the Cold War was in full bloom. The Soviet father of the hydrogen bomb and Nobel Peace Laureate turned dissident physicist, Andrei Sakharov, had been exiled to Gorki by the Soviet authorities. Called "senile" and under heavy Soviet censorship, Sakharov had a hard time communicating his latest scientific results to readers outside of Gorki. Some smuggled results reached the author, Harry Lipkin, who then realized that he and Sakharov were both pioneers in a new revolution on our understanding the structure of matter. The particle physics community had resisted their revelation that the

The world of Andrei Sakharov
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ISBN: 0190288779 1280502460 9786610502462 1423720245 0195343743 1602566909 9781423720249 019515620X 9780195156201 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford [England] New York Oxford University Press

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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.

The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov
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ISBN: 1281730181 9786611730185 0300129378 9780300129373 0300106815 9780300106817 9781281730183 6611730184 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven

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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.

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