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Another cause of skepticism about the elections was the bloc of 750 seats reserved for official and public organizations. But even there, insurgency reigned. Leaders of the Soviet Academy of Sciences produced a limp slate of 23 nominees for their 20 reserved seats, pointedly excluding physicist Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel laureate and human-rights activist. But the membership voted down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group...
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE edited by Yuri Afanasayev (Progress Publishers, 1988). The definitive, argument-provoking collection of essays by such high priests of perestroika as Andrei Sakharov, economist Tatyana Zaslavskaya and Novy Mir editor in chief Sergei Zalygin...
Memorial's members include such prominent intellectuals as poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, historian Medvedev and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov, who serves as the group's honorary chairman. But its most important role is to provide an outlet for the grief and pain that victims of Stalin and their relatives have long had to keep to themselves. A steady stream of visitors from all over the Soviet Union seek out Memorial's cramped Moscow office. Many are elderly women who wait for as long as an hour and a half -- as if "they were lining up to buy sausage," says a Memorial...
...Wouldn't you like to go back and live again in the Soviet Union? After all, now they're rebuilding the society, they've published Doctor Zhivago, they don't arrest people anymore under Article 70 (for "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation"), and the conscience of Russia, academician Sakharov, is practically a member of the government...
...expected the academics to stage a full-scale revolt. After a noisy protest meeting outside, rank-and-file scientists voted to reject all but eight of the official candidates, leaving 15 vacancies in the 23 parliamentary seats set aside for scientists and clearing the way for the election of Sakharov and other reformers in a fresh round of voting next month. "This was the result of a great grass-roots movement," an obviously pleased Sakharov told reporters at the gathering. "If they choose me to be a candidate and a Deputy, I will not refuse...