Meeting the demands of reason : the life and thought of Andrei Sakharov /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.