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Andrei Sakharov and Human Rights (2011)
Andrei Sakharov, Nobel Peace Prize winner and physicist, was a leading human rights activist in the Soviet Union, and one of the world's great thinkers. His principled messages contributed to the non-violent, revolutionary changes of 1989, and continue to influence work in favour of justice and human rights today. This book, containing selected human rights texts, is published as part of a series of initiatives highlighting how acutely relevant his ideas remain in our time.
Foreword
Introduction
Nobel presentation speech
I. Autobiography
An autobiographical note
Exile in Gorky
Return to Moscow
II. Andrei Sakharov's vision and world view
Prologue to My country and the world
Reflections on progress, co-existence and intellectual freedom
Postscript to Memorandum
Interview with Olle Stenholm
Nobel lecture: Peace, progress and human rights
Open letter to the President of the Academy of Sciences
Danger of thermonuclear war
The inevitability of perestroika
Concluding statement to the First Congress of People's Deputies
III. Human rights activities
The responsibility of scientists
Eastern Europe: Sakharov's interview with a correspondent from the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, January 26, 1977
The human rights movement in the USSR
A Chronicle of Current Events
The Initiative Group for the Defence of Human Rights
The Moscow Human Rights Committee
The Memorial Society
Appeals and action
Rehabilitation of Stalin
Prisoners of conscience and political prisoners
Political trials and the rule of law
Abolition of the death penalty
Protection of the environment
International responsibility for human rights
IV. In tribute
Sergei Kovalev: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov: Meeting the demands of reason
Valentin Turchin: My memory of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Valery Chalidze: Andrei Sakharov and the Russian intelligentsia
Pavel Litvinov: In search of dialogue
Yuri Orlov
Interview with President Mikhail Gorbachev
President Boris Yeltsin
President Dmitri Medvedev
Efrem Yankelevich: Sakharov's alternatives
Václav Havel: Preface to the Collected Works of Andrei Sakharov
Adam Michnik: Sakharov from a Polish perspective
Thomas Hammarberg: The relevance of Andrei Sakharov's example and message on human rights in today's world
Appendices
1. Andrei Sakharov - a chronology
2. Bibliography
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