Author:
Bergman, Jay.
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxvii, 454 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Pt. I. Earliest influences : 1921-1945 -- 1. A childhood of culture and ideas -- 2. Expanding horizons -- Pt. II. Designing weapons for the maintenance of peace : 1945-1956 -- 3. Tamm's protege at FIAN -- 4. Arzamas-16--the secret installation -- 5. The "layer cake" and other weapons -- Pt. III. A scientist with a social conscience : 1956-1968 -- 6. Radioactive fallout and other matters of conscience -- 7. Confronting Khrushchev -- 8. The Nuzhdin affair -- 9. A dissident at last -- Pt. IV. 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. V. "Domestic enemy number one" : 1973-1980 -- 14. Orchestrated vituperation -- 15. Debating Solzhenitsyn -- 16. Detente and human rights -- 17. Nobel laureate -- 18. The noose tightens -- Pt. VI. In exile, unrepentant : 1980-1986 -- 19. Arrested but still defiant -- 20. Finding hope in quantum physics -- 21. TheSoviet leadership softens -- Pt. VII. The conscience of perestroika : 1986-1989 -- 22. Return to Moscow -- 23. A different kind of perestroika -- 24. The congress of people's deputies -- 25. Apotheosis postmortem -- Conclusion : Sakharov's legacy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-444) and index.
