The 'Humanizing' Role Of Andrei Sakharov
The 'Humanizing' Role Of Andrei Sakharov December 22, 2016 16:08 GMT Share share Print The usual narrative of the unraveling of the Soviet Union moves from the promising reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev to the dashed hopes of Boris Yeltsin to the authoritarian counterrevolution of Vladimir Putin. But within that narrative, the story of Andrei Sakharov -- the physicist, human rights advocate, and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died on December 14, 1989 -- is one of the tantalizing "might-have-beens." "If [Sakharov's] ideas had been realized even by half, we would be living in a different coun...
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