Andrei Sakharov letter 1980

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Andrei Sakharov letter 1980

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1v19r6s2

Open letter to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, relating to civil rights in the Soviet Union. Includes American newspaper clippings reporting the letter. Photocopy.

1 item (11 p.) (1 folder); (0.1 linear feet)

rus,

Hoover Institution Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6652226

Hoover Institution Archives

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sk2c04 (person)

Andreĭ Dmitrievich Sakharov was born May 21, 1921, into a Moscow family of cultured and liberal intelligentsia. His father was Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, a private school physics teacher and an amateur pianist. Sakharov's mother was Ëkaterina Alekseyevna Sakharova (née Sofiano, of Greek ancestry). Although his paternal great-grandfather had been a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church and his mother had had him baptized, his father was an atheist. Sakharov married Klavdia Alekseyevn...