Solzhenitsyn i Sakharov:
Description:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), two great Russian citizens and Nobel prize winners, great social utopians of the twentieth century. These two people met each other in 1968, several days after the USSR occupied Czechoslovakia and had a close relationship until Solzhenitsyn's exile in 1974. Roi Medvedev (b. 1925) looks into their ideas and their actions which changed the Russian destiny and the attitude of the Russian people of their generation. The author analyzes the social and political views of both thinkers expressed in their works, speeches and personal meetings with the author. Bibliographic references. Supplements (pp. 158-268) include Medvedev's articles and notes published in samizdat, foreign and Russian periodicals on the subject.