Yelena Bonner (1923-2011): traditions of Soviet dissent: Andrei Sakharov and Soviet Dissent
Dedicated to the memory of Yelenna Bonner a world-renown Soviet/Russian human right activist, wife and inspiration for the late leading Soviet dissenter, political philosopher and humanist, Nobel Peace Price recipient physicist Andrei Sakharov.
This exhibition of documents, photographs, posters, books, and audiovisual materials from the collections of the Hoover Institution Library and Archives illustrates the various aspects of the struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union from the 1960s onward.
The Current Digest of the Russian Press (formerly Current Digest of the Soviet Press and Post-Soviet Press) was founded in 1949. Each week it presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
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A complete archive extending back to 1912 of Pravda, official newspaper of the Communist Party of Russia/the USSR. Issues are displayed as full-page images.
Covers scholarship in the social sciences and humanities published in the Commonwealth of Independent States and Eastern Europe: books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Materials in English, Russian, and other languages.
Covers Russian and English publications, reports and data sets from the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Statistics and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Books by Andrei Sakharov
Available at Gelman Library or through the WRLC consortium
Published by W.W.Norton in the United States and by AndrИ Deutsch in the United Kingdom. Written in 1968, this celebrated essay became the manifesto of the fledging human rights movement in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Written while Sakharov was in exile in Gorky, this book tells of the life of Andrei Sakharov up to his return from exile in December 1986. The Bibliography, Glossary, and Index included in the Memoirs is a useful reference tool on Sakharov and the Russian human rights movement.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom by 