Meeting the demands of reason : the life and thought of Andrei Sakharov / Jay Bergman.
Pubblicazione:
Ithaca : Cornell university press, 2009.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 454 p., [8] p. di tav. : ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface and acknowledgments. Note on transliteration. Pt. 1. Earliest influences, 1921-1945: 1. A childhood of culture and ideas 2. Expanding horizons. Pt. 2. Designing weapons for the maintenance of peace, 1945-1956: 3. Tamm's protégé at FIAN 4. Arzamas 16: the secret installation 5. The layer cake and other weapons. Pt. 3. A scientist with a social conscience, 1956-1968: 6. Radioactive fallout and other matters of conscience 7. Confronting Khrushschev 8. The Nuzhdin affair 9. A dissident at last. Pt. 4. Challenging the Soviet Goliath, 1968-1973: 10. Reflections on progress, coexistence and intellectual freedom 11. An equal partner in politics and life 12. Moral anchor of a dissident movement 13. The regime reacts. Pt. 5. Domestic enemy number one, 1973-1980: 14. Orchestrated vituperation 15. Debating solzhenitsyn 16. Détente and human rights 17. Nobel laureate 18. The noose tightens. Pt. 6. In exile, unrepentant, 1980-1986: 19. Arrested but still defiant 20. Finding hope in quantum physics 21. The Soviet leadership spftens. Pt. 7. The conscience of Perestroika, 1986-1989: 22. Return to Moscow 23. A different kind of Perestroika 24. The congress of people's desputies 25. Apotheosis postmortem. Conclusion: Sakharov's legacy. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations follow page
