Andrei D. Sakharov (1) (1921–1989)
Autor/a de Memoirs
Per altres autors anomenats Andrei D. Sakharov, vegeu la pàgina de desambiguació.
Obres de Andrei D. Sakharov
Wie ich mir die Zukunft vorstelle. Gedanken über Fortschritt, friedliche Koexistenz und geistige Freiheit (1973) — Autor — 8 exemplars
Manifest om fremskridt, sameksistens og frihed 3 exemplars
Sakharovs stemme 2 exemplars
Obres associades
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Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- SAKHAROV, Andrei Dmitrievich
SAKHAROV, Andrei - Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Rusland
- Educació
- Moscow State University
- Professions
- nuclear physicist
dissident
Nobel laureate
activist for disarmament, peace and human rights - Relacions
- Bonner, Elena (wife)
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 14
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 499
- Popularitat
- #49,589
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 59
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 2
There was a fair amount of rather dense science and physics in parts, which I passed over quickly.
Sakharov was very brave, but his wife and partner in human rights activism Elena Bonner was crazy-brave. For instance, a big part of dissident work in the Soviet Union was attending show trials to support the unjustly accused and be a witness to the injustice, so Sakharov and Bonner were constantly traveling around the Soviet Union to sit in courtroom galleries packed with KGB thugs. The KGB men were there to take up space, to intimidate people, and to cheer and applaud as harsh and pre-determined verdicts were announced, including in one instance recounted in the book a death sentence handed down on December 25, 1970, to Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov, Refuseniks who plotted to steal a civilian airplane and fly it to Israel:
"As the death sentences were announced, the KGB agents and other “spectators” broke into loud applause. [Bonner] began shouting furiously: 'Fascists! Only fascists would applaud a death sentence!' The clapping stopped at once."
P. 323. (International pressure resulted in the commutation of those sentences. Both eventually made it to Israel, where Dymshits recently died and Kuznetsov still lives.)
Read Elena Bonner’s obituary from 2011.
The passages about Solzhenitsyn were particularly interesting. The two disagreed about several major issues, and were not afraid to criticize each other. But each respected the place of the other.
“Academician” is a great title, and sadly not in general use in the West. If any of my correspondents from the academic world wish to be referred to as “Academician” let me know and I will do so.… (més)