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Jay Bergman - Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov - 9780801447310 - V9780801447310
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Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov

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Description for Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov Hardback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 816.
The Soviet physicist, dissident, and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The first Russian to have been so recognized, Sakharov in his Nobel lecture held that humanity had a sacred endeavor to create a life worthy of its potential, that we must make good the demands of reason, by confronting the dangers threatening the world, both then and now: nuclear annihilation, famine, pollution, and the denial of human rights. Meeting the Demands of Reason provides a comprehensive account of Sakharov's life and intellectual development, focusing ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801447310
SKU
V9780801447310
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Reviews for Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov
In this superb intellectual history, Jay Bergman illuminates the rise of the public citizen in the USSR, from Stalin to Gorbachev, explaining how physicist Andrei Sakharov moved from unquestioningly developing nuclear weapons for the Soviet state to raising questions about universal human rights and even the legitimacy of the USSR. Sakharov, by a combination of introspection, reason, and force of ... Read more

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