Memoirs. Part 2

36 hrs. 10 min.

Language Russian

Author Andrei Sakharov

Narrator Sergey Dadyko

Description

In the book of memoirs by Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov—the physicist who created the Soviet hydrogen bomb (1953), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), a laureate of the Stalin Prize (1953) and the Lenin Prize (1956), a three-time Hero of Socialist Labor (1954, 1956, 1962), a public figure and dissident, one of the leaders of the human rights movement in the USSR, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1975)—are included his books: "Memoirs" and "Bitter, Moscow, further everywhere", written by Andrey Dmitrievich, as well as the book "Postscript" by his wife and fellow human-rights activist Elena Bonner, telling about their life in exile in Gorky (1980–1986).

In the «Memoirs», Andrey Dmitrievich carried the narrative up to November 1983. Elena Georgievna Bonner (for Andrey Dmitrievich and friends — Люся) wrote, as it were, a postscript to the «Memoirs», in which she told about their life in Gorky in 1983–1985.

Contents:

From the editors-compilers
Foreword
SECOND PART
CHAPTER 1
Before the turn
CHAPTER 2
1968: Prague Spring. "Reflections on progress, peaceful coexistence, and intellectual freedom"
CHAPTER 3
Klavа’s illness and death. Sakharov, Turchin, Medvedev memorandum. Seminar with Turchin. Grigory Pomerants
CHAPTER 4
Valery Chalidze.
The Grigoryenko case. Saving Zhores
CHAPTER 5
Kyiv conference. The Pimenov and Vayl case.
Lucia appears. Human Rights Committee.
"The airplane case"
CHAPTER 6
"Memorandum". The Feinberg and Borisov case. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Leontovich. Use of psychiatry for political purposes. Crimean Tatars
CHAPTER 7
Search at Chalidze. Trial of Krasnov-Levitin. The problem of religious freedom and freedom of choosing one’s country of residence. Trial of T. Appeal to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on freedom of emigration
CHAPTER 8
Lyusya—my wife
CHAPTER 9
Poets. Conversation with Tupolev. The Lupinós case. Trial of Bukovsky. Trips to Kyiv. New arrests. Dissidents
CHAPTER 10
Central Asia and Baku. Appeals for amnesty and death penalty. «Memorandum» and «Afterword». Meeting with Slavsky. The Yakir and Krassin case
CHAPTER 11
Arrest of Shikhanovich. Demonstration at the Lebanese embassy. Georgia and Armenia. Exclusion of Tania from Moscow State University. Trial of Lyubarsky. First interview. Lyusya leaves the party
CHAPTER 12
Meetings with I. G. Petrovsky. Chalidze’s departure. Chakovsky’s article. Interview with Ulla Stenholm. Kornilov’s article. Alyosha not admitted to Moscow State University
CHAPTER 13
Summons to Malyarov. Press conference on August 21, 1973. Newspaper campaign. Speeches by Turchin, Shragin, and Litvinov. Chukovskaya’s article, Solzhenitsyn’s article. Statement by Maksimov, Galich, and Sakharov in defense of Pablo Neruda. Statements by Lyusya and Barabanov
CHAPTER 14
Statement regarding the October War. «Black September» in our apartment. Statement about the Jackson amendment. Summonses for interrogation to Lefortovo for Lyusya. Request for a trip to Princeton. Distorted publication. Hospital of the USSR Academy of Sciences
CHAPTER 15
«A strange ball» (Solzhenitsyn on Sakharov)
CHAPTER 16
Lyusya’s operation. «The Gulag Archipelago». Solzhenitsyn’s exile. My article about the «Letter to the leaders» by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
CHAPTER 17
Rest in Sukhumi. «Peace in half a century». Lyusya’s eyes. First hunger strike. Silva Zalmanzon and Simas Kudirka
CHAPTER 18
Chino del Duca Prize. Aid fund for children of political prisoners. My speeches from 1974–1975: Vins, Davidovich, "On the right to live at home", German emigration, a letter from Suharto, in defense of Kurds, meeting with Heinrich Böll and a joint appeal. Day of political prisoners. Threats to children and grandchildren. Sergey Kovalev
CHAPTER 19
1975. Struggle for Lyusya’s trip. «On the country and the world». Moti’s illness. Lyusya in Italy. Nobel Prize. Trial in Vilnius
CHAPTER 20
Evgeny Brúnov and Yakovlev
CHAPTER 21
1976. Yefim Davidovich. Peter Kunin. Grigory Podyapolsky. Konstantin Bogatyrev. Igor Alikhanov
CHAPTER 22
1976 (continued). Amnesty International. Trial in Omsk of Mustapha Jemilev. Andrey Tverdokhlebov. Yakutia. Tbilisi. Helsinki group. Yellow packets. «Russian voice». The Zosimov case, El-Zaatar, interview with Crimean… Exchange of Bukovsky. Fire at Malva Landa
CHAPTER 23
1977. Appeal to the elected US president regarding Peter Ruban. Searches in Moscow. Explosion in the Moscow subway. Carter’s letter about 16 prisoners. Carter’s inaugural address. Summons to Gusev. Carter’s letter. Arrests of Ginzburg and Orlov. «Phantom laboratory assistant». Apartment exchange case. Arrest of Shcharransky. Arrests in Ukraine, the Baltics, Georgia, and Armenia. Rudenko. Tikhii. Vance and Gromyko
CHAPTER 24
1977 (continued). Motya and Anya. Second trip for Lyusya. Departure of children and grandchildren. Sakharov hearings. Against the death penalty. Nuclear energy. Amnesty in Indonesia and Yugoslavia. Invitation from AFT - CPP. Alyosha and his affairs. Trip to Mordovia
CHAPTER 25
1978. Alyosha’s departure. Trials of Orlov, Ginzburg, Shcharransky. Rest in Sukhumi. Secret search
CHAPTER 26
1979. Lyusya’s third trip. The Zatikyan, Bagdasaryan, and Stepanian case. My appeals to Brezhnev. Two trips to Tashkent. A new case of Mustapha Jemilev. Adventists. Vladimir Shelkov. Letter to the Crimean Tatars to Giscard d’Estaing and my new appeal to Brezhnev. Zbigniew Romaszewski. Vera Fedorovna Livchak. New arrests
CHAPTER 27
Letters and visitors
CHAPTER 28
Afghanistan, Gorky
CHAPTER 29
A house in Shcherbinki. «The regime». Thefts and searches. Public speeches. Scientific work. Lyusya in those years
CHAPTER 30
The case of Liza Alexeyeva
CHAPTER 31
Final
Epilogue
Appendix
Supplement