Description

Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles. Published date: 1984. Softcover, 1 volume (various pagings); 28 cm. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. In good+ condition. Stiff white paper covers with printed title and photographic illustration show light overall toning, faint surface soiling, and mild edge wear, with a small spot to the front cover. Binding sound. Interior pages clean and unmarked, with light age toning. Commemorative publication issued by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in honor of the 1984 Simon Wiesenthal Humanitarian Award recipients, Dr. Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner. Documents Sakharov and Bonner's lives, writings, and human rights advocacy during the period of Sakharov's internal exile in the Soviet Union. Published in 1984 at the height of Cold War human rights advocacy, the book was produced to draw international attention to Sakharov and Bonner during Sakharov's exile and hunger strike in Gorky, combining eyewitness reports, dissident essays, documentary photographs, and a detailed chronology of events from 1984. The work functions as a contemporaneous human rights dossier rather than a retrospective biography, reflecting international concern over political repression in the late Soviet period.