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...activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that despite repeated Soviet efforts to destroy Sakharov's own memoirs, they have been preserved, are now in the West, and will eventually...
...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...
...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 be resisted...
...These cultural exchanges have no politicalvalue," said Richard Pipes, Baird Professor ofHistory. "They always try to put themselvesforward as a peaceful nation, and this createsgood will, but it will have no effect on theirconduct. Russian art is very nice, but Russia isstill in Afghanistan, they still keep Sakharov...
...addition, Boris Gulko, a former national chess champion who applied seven years ago to emigrate to Israel, finally received permission and flew to Vienna. Such gestures may temporarily deflect criticism of the way the Soviet Union treats dissenters. But nothing would accomplish that goal so effectively as giving Sakharov and his wife a chance to spend the rest of their lives in peace...