Memoirs. Part 1

14 hrs. 33 min.

Language Russian

Author Andrei Sakharov

Narrator Sergey Dadyko

Description

This edition includes books that entered the memoirs of Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov—physicist, creator of the Soviet hydrogen bomb (1953), academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), laureate of the Stalin Prize (1953) and the Lenin Prize (1956), three-time Hero of Socialist Labor (1954, 1956, 1962), a public figure, dissident, one of the leaders of the human rights movement in the USSR, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1975): “Memoirs” and “Gorky, Moscow, further everywhere,” written by Andrey Dmitrievich, and the book “Postscriptum” by his wife and fellow human-rights activist Yelena Bonner, describing their life in exile in Gorky (1980–1986).

Contents:

From the editors-compilers
Preface

PART ONE
CHAPTER 1 Family, childhood
CHAPTER 2 Books. Home study and at school. University before the war
CHAPTER 3 University in the first year of the war. Moscow and Ashgabat
CHAPTER 4 At the factory during the war years
CHAPTER 5 Graduate school at FIAN. Science
CHAPTER 6 Atomic and thermonuclear. Tamm’s group at FIAN
CHAPTER 7 The object
CHAPTER 8 I.E. Tamm, I.Ya. Pomeranchuk, N.N. Bogolyubov, Ya.B. Zeldovich
CHAPTER 9 Magnetic thermonuclear reactor. Magnetic cumulation
CHAPTER 10 Before the test
CHAPTER 11 1953
CHAPTER 12 “The Third Idea”
CHAPTER 13 The 1955 test
CHAPTER 14 Non-threshold biological effects
CHAPTER 15 1959–1961. Khrushchev and Brezhnev in 1959. July 10, 1961: my note and Khrushchev’s speech. Big session. Father’s death
CHAPTER 16 1962–1963. Against the double test. The Moscow treaty. Mother’s death
CHAPTER 17 Election to the Academy in 1964. The case of the execution by firing squad
CHAPTER 18 Scientific work in the 60s