Memoirs
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Personal, scientific and political memoirs by the Soviet scientist, Nobel Prize-winner and human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov. In 1986 Sakharov was in his sixth year of exile, when Gorbachev... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0394537408
ISBN13:9780394537405
Release Date:July 1990
Publisher:Alfred A. Knopf
Length:773 Pages
Weight:2.94 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Fascinating but very disturbing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The history and personalities are fascinating. The science is informative. The horrors that the author describes were more than I could continue reading.
Black comedy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This book bordered on the surreal due to Sakharov's irony free style. He would describe some craziness involving KGB interference in his life or Soviet life in general and then suddenly break off to describe theoretical quantum physics for three pages. This juxtaposition between the irrational and rational makes the book unexpectedly comic at times.
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