Word: bonner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Haig, Theodore H. White and Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss. "Before we choose a book to excerpt," says Kriss, "we always ask: Does it enlarge our knowledge of history; does it give us new insight into the way our world works?" Bonner's book combines both deeply personal and broadly historical elements. Says Kriss: "It is a story of two people living in terrible isolation, but also waging a heroic fight against a vast and monolithic state system. The title has it right: Bonner and Sakharov are Alone Together...
...task of verifying the story was made even more challenging by the fact that the author could not be reached. Donnelly, who majored in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, was struck by the relentlessness and brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story of a fearless woman of indomitable character. It could be a story of a woman against the sea, against Mount Everest -- it has that adventure quality. We always think that the KGB cannot...
...this time. Sakharov, 65, spiritual godfather of the Soviet dissident movement, who was sent into internal exile in the city of Gorky in 1980, would be a prisoner of conscience a while longer, maybe a very long while. So would his wife of the past 14 years, Elena Bonner, 63, herself sentenced to five years of exile...
...Sakharovs remain penned up, they by no means remain silent. This week Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., is publishing, and TIME is excerpting, the book that Bonner wrote during her six-month visit to the West (Alone Together; 272 pages; $17.95). In it she recounts the fight that she and her husband waged to get her to the U.S. for medical treatment. She also confirms that Andrei Sakharov's memoirs, repeatedly stolen and repeatedly reconstructed, a document certain to be of surpassing interest, have somehow survived. "(His) book will come," says Bonner. "It already exists." And it is in the West...
...Bonner, who returned to the U.S.S.R. on June 2, writes with stark directness of life under the baleful eye of the Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti). A policeman is posted outside the door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha...