Sakharov (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Lourie
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1921-2002
- Setting: Russia
- Principal Characters: Andrei Sakharov, Dmitri Sakharov, Katya Sofiano Sakharov, Klava Vikhereva Sakharov, Igor Tamm, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Elena Bonner, Tanya Sakharov, Lyuba Sakharov, Dmitri Sakharov
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Twentieth century, Human rights, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Genius, Totalitarianism, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Russia or Russian people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Physics or physicists, Hydrogen bomb, Activism, Free speech, Nuclear physics
- Locales: Russia
Andrei Sakharov had two brilliant careers, as the physicist who led the development of the Soviet Union’s hydrogen bomb and as head of the Human Rights Committee, in which role he and his second wife, Elena Bonner, sought to defend individuals against Soviet injustice and cruelty. Richard Lourie has written a comprehensive, detailed, and well-written account of this great man’s arduous life. Sometimes, to be sure, Lourie manages to lose the larger meaning of his subject’s activities in the overwhelming detail of his innumerable struggles. On the whole, however, he has written a...
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