Precursor of Perestroika
AUG 01, 1990
Sakharov’s unshakable principles—but even more his willingness to debate them and to speak out publicly for them—prefigured a restructured society.
DOI: 10.1063/1.881253
A little time has now passed since the death of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. Many articles and papers have been published reflecting on this tragic event from various points of view, but time alone will reveal the depth of the loss suffered by our country and humanity and the grief felt by all people of discernment. It will be some time before we cease to feel our bereavement at the crumbling of the foothold that supported us in hard times, in our hour of need.
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Vladimir Ya. Fainberg. Lebedev Physical, Institute, Moscow.
© 1990. American Institute of Physics
