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Представлять Валерию Новодворскую нет необходимости, лидер Демократического Союза достаточно хорошо известна. А вот познакомиться с ее исповедью - это неожиданное и интересное чтение. Воспоминания охватывают период со школьных лет автора до сегодняшнего дня. Вместе с автором читатель пройдет путь от юного антисоветчика Советского Союза до руководителя политической партии, узнает о многочисленных акциях политического противостояния Валерии Новодворской, связанных нередко с арестами и голодовками, познакомится с ее характеристиками разных политических лидеров, их поступков, с оценкой ею ситуаций в стране, с прогнозами.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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Valeriya Novodvorskaya
8 books18 followersValeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya was a Russian liberal politician, Soviet dissident, political commentator and writer. She was the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party, and a member of the editorial board of The New Times.
Novodvorskaya was active in the Soviet dissident movement from her youth, and was first imprisoned by the Soviet authorities in 1969 for distributing leaflets that criticized the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The leaflets included her poetry: "Thank you, the Communist Party for our bitterness and despair, for our shameful silence, thank you the Party!" Novodvorskaya was only 19 at this time.
She was arrested and imprisoned in a Soviet psychiatric hospital and, like many other Soviet dissidents, diagnosed with "sluggish schizophrenia".
In the early 1990s psychiatrists of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia proved that the claim of her mental illness was bogus.
She described her experience in th 'Psikhushka' ('psyche-ward') in her book 'Beyond Despair'.
Novodvorskaya was active in the Soviet dissident movement from her youth, and was first imprisoned by the Soviet authorities in 1969 for distributing leaflets that criticized the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The leaflets included her poetry: "Thank you, the Communist Party for our bitterness and despair, for our shameful silence, thank you the Party!" Novodvorskaya was only 19 at this time.
She was arrested and imprisoned in a Soviet psychiatric hospital and, like many other Soviet dissidents, diagnosed with "sluggish schizophrenia".
In the early 1990s psychiatrists of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia proved that the claim of her mental illness was bogus.
She described her experience in th 'Psikhushka' ('psyche-ward') in her book 'Beyond Despair'.
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November 15, 2024
Nedaudz par daudz detalizētu stāstu par revolucionārās darbības smalkākajām finesēm, bet citādi apbrīnojama autobiogrāfija. Izcili komiski aprakstītas neticami absurdas, bet laikam jau patiesas epizodes
May 30, 2016
Неймовірна людина!
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