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KGB File of Andrei Sakharov

by Joshua Rubenstein

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A documentary record of surveillance and dissent in the late Soviet era

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A documentary record of surveillance and dissent in the late Soviet era

Edited by Joshua Rubenstein, this volume brings together KGB files concerning Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who became a prominent human-rights activist. Covering 1968 through Sakharov’s death in 1989, the documents trace the state’s surveillance of him and its attempts to pressure and silence him. The collection places official security records alongside the larger history of Soviet dissent, revealing how the KGB interpreted—and often misunderstood—the moral and political commitments of the human-rights movement. It is an archival sourcebook centered on the machinery of state monitoring and one dissident’s sustained public role.

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  • Readers interested in Soviet history and Cold War-era state security
  • Those seeking primary-source material on Andrei Sakharov and the Soviet human-rights movement
  • Readers of espionage and political-documentary history

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KGB surveillanceSoviet dissentHuman rightsState repressionAndrei Sakharov

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Book overview

Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and--as a result--a source of profound irritation to the Kremlin. This book publishes for the first time ever KGB files on Sakharov that became available during Boris Yeltsin's presidency. The documents reveal the untold story of KGB surveillance of Sakharov from 1968 until his death in 1989 and of the regime's efforts to intimidate and silence him. The disturbing archival materials show the KGB to have had a profound lack of understanding of the spiritual and moral nature of the human rights movement and of Sakharov's role as one of its leading figures.
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