Sakharov Flashcards
Who was he?
Member of Russian Orthodox Church
Russian Nationalist
Advocate of human rights
Regarded the ‘Father of the Hydrogen Bomb’
What was he critical of
damage caused by soviet nuclear tests
Who did he lead a campaign to expel from the Soviet Academy of Sciences?
Trofim Lysenko
When did Sakharov make his criticisms public?
How?
What did he argue?
1968
essay ‘Reflections of Progress’
Arguing that Soviet Union should respect human rights
Within a month where had the essay been published and broadcast?
published in the West
Broadcast on BBC
Why were the KGB reluctant to persecute him?
well respected in the West and in the Soviet-Union
What did the KGB do?
What did Sakharov do in response to this?
Restricted his right to travel
reduced his salary
warned him
gave a full report of the intimidation to the New York Times
By the end of 1968, what would the KGB not have been able to do? Why? What did the KGB do? Did this work? What did KGB do?
arrest him
the case was so well known
KGB orchestrated a press campaign against him
no - 1975, Sakharov published ‘My Country and the World’ - proposed reform of the Soviet Union on the basis of human rights - won Nobel Peace Prize for this
refused him the right to leave the Soviet Union and kept him under constant surveillance
How was he described in KGB documents?
‘Public Enemy Number One’
What was the KGB’s final action against Sakharov?
sent him into internal exile in the city of Gorky
