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Mon pays et le monde
R160069166. Mon pays et le monde. 1975. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 104 pages; couverture passée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 947-Europe de l'Est, URSS
112 pages, Paperback
First published October 12, 1975
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Andrei D. Sakharov
40 books37 followersSoviet physicist and dissident Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov helped to develop the first Soviet hydrogen bomb and as an outspoken advocate of human rights and nuclear disarmament won the Nobel Prize of 1975 for peace; people banished him to Gorky (now Nizhniy Novgorod) from 1980 to 1986.
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July 3, 2017
Andrei Sakharov was one of the greatest fighters for human rights of the 20th century.
He gained the 1975 Nobel Prize and in 1979 was exiled to Gorky.
In this book Sakharov outlines his vision of the USSR and the world at the time.
In this moving and forthright book Sakharov outlined the problems of the Soviet Union of the time including poverty, poor living standards, alcoholism, and economic stagnation. He criticized the priviliges of the Nomenklatura, or Communist Party elite.
He attacked the discrimination and repression of minorities such as the Jews, Ukrainians,Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans and Meshki Turks.
In 1944 the Crimean Tatars became victims of a criminal forced resettlement during which half of the children and old people died of hunger and cold. They were denied the right to resettle in their native Crimea until after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the independence of Ukraine.
Their fate was shared by the Volga Germans, the Meshki Turks and others.
He outlines the hypocrisy and blindness of leftwing intellectuals of his time, and during the Stalin years before.
During the 1920s a Western writer declared that the "rumors" of famine in the USSR were exaggerated "Nowhere have I eaten so well as in the USSR" he said at the very time that NKVD "anti-profiteer" detachments were machine gunning starving children who were trying to cross the border.
Sakharov attacks the hypocrisy of the leftist intellgensia who showed a moral blindness in condoning human rights abuses and crimes in Communist states.
Their moral perfidy is echoed today in their support of terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, their vicious prejudice against Israel, and their support for both Arab/Islamic dictatorships like Iran, Syria, Libya and Sudan as well as revolutionary/Communist regimes like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and Zimbabwe.
In this book he condemmned leftists who were so vocal about the excesses of Pinochet's Chile but were silent about the mass executions in Cambodia and Vietnam by the Communists.
Sakharov attacked Soviet support for totalitarian regimes like Gaddafi's Libya and Idi Amin's Uganda, as well as Soviet support for the genocide of the Ibos in Nigeria and the Kurds of Iraq.
Sakahrov saw the greatest threat to the world coming from the totalitarian challenge. This is as true today as it was then.
His call for Western unity and strength in the face of totalitarian evil is as relevant today as it was in the 1970s.
He gained the 1975 Nobel Prize and in 1979 was exiled to Gorky.
In this book Sakharov outlines his vision of the USSR and the world at the time.
In this moving and forthright book Sakharov outlined the problems of the Soviet Union of the time including poverty, poor living standards, alcoholism, and economic stagnation. He criticized the priviliges of the Nomenklatura, or Communist Party elite.
He attacked the discrimination and repression of minorities such as the Jews, Ukrainians,Crimean Tatars, Volga Germans and Meshki Turks.
In 1944 the Crimean Tatars became victims of a criminal forced resettlement during which half of the children and old people died of hunger and cold. They were denied the right to resettle in their native Crimea until after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the independence of Ukraine.
Their fate was shared by the Volga Germans, the Meshki Turks and others.
He outlines the hypocrisy and blindness of leftwing intellectuals of his time, and during the Stalin years before.
During the 1920s a Western writer declared that the "rumors" of famine in the USSR were exaggerated "Nowhere have I eaten so well as in the USSR" he said at the very time that NKVD "anti-profiteer" detachments were machine gunning starving children who were trying to cross the border.
Sakharov attacks the hypocrisy of the leftist intellgensia who showed a moral blindness in condoning human rights abuses and crimes in Communist states.
Their moral perfidy is echoed today in their support of terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, their vicious prejudice against Israel, and their support for both Arab/Islamic dictatorships like Iran, Syria, Libya and Sudan as well as revolutionary/Communist regimes like Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea and Zimbabwe.
In this book he condemmned leftists who were so vocal about the excesses of Pinochet's Chile but were silent about the mass executions in Cambodia and Vietnam by the Communists.
Sakharov attacked Soviet support for totalitarian regimes like Gaddafi's Libya and Idi Amin's Uganda, as well as Soviet support for the genocide of the Ibos in Nigeria and the Kurds of Iraq.
Sakahrov saw the greatest threat to the world coming from the totalitarian challenge. This is as true today as it was then.
His call for Western unity and strength in the face of totalitarian evil is as relevant today as it was in the 1970s.
February 18, 2013
if anybody still thinks that the socialist or communist utopia is a viable path towards a better human social improvement, they better start thinking twice. Ever since the french revolution, humanity started to beleive that humanity could improve their status in the world by remaking itself and its political systems. Even if capitalism
and monarchial systems have serious drawbacks, socialism and/or communism have even more flaws. This book of My Country and the World by Sakharov tells you how and why.
In a very clear and unsophisticated manner Sakharov reccounts without bitterness or discontent and even with certain flair and kindness, all the problems and shortcomings of the USRR (now called Russia). Probably this work helped to dismantle the huge soviet apparatus that led to its complete downfall. Its a terrific account of what went wrong with one of humanity´s fiercest aspirations to have a better society.
This book was published in 1975 the same year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and i wonder if the book came out before this prize was given to him, or he received the award because of the book among other reasons. In any case his book and his valiant and sincere disclosure to the world and his countryman is undoubtfully a great human achievement.
For all those people wondering if communism is still a viable political option for humans, i suggest most respectfully to read this book, that is an insider´s view of what was really going on in the USSR despite the soviet propaganda that was boasting to the world its fake grand accomplishments.
His plea is: no more totalitarian regimes, they dont work and cause more problems than anybody could of imagened. I might add that totalitarian dictatorships, either of a political or religious nature, are the worse social mechanisms ever.
and monarchial systems have serious drawbacks, socialism and/or communism have even more flaws. This book of My Country and the World by Sakharov tells you how and why.
In a very clear and unsophisticated manner Sakharov reccounts without bitterness or discontent and even with certain flair and kindness, all the problems and shortcomings of the USRR (now called Russia). Probably this work helped to dismantle the huge soviet apparatus that led to its complete downfall. Its a terrific account of what went wrong with one of humanity´s fiercest aspirations to have a better society.
This book was published in 1975 the same year he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and i wonder if the book came out before this prize was given to him, or he received the award because of the book among other reasons. In any case his book and his valiant and sincere disclosure to the world and his countryman is undoubtfully a great human achievement.
For all those people wondering if communism is still a viable political option for humans, i suggest most respectfully to read this book, that is an insider´s view of what was really going on in the USSR despite the soviet propaganda that was boasting to the world its fake grand accomplishments.
His plea is: no more totalitarian regimes, they dont work and cause more problems than anybody could of imagened. I might add that totalitarian dictatorships, either of a political or religious nature, are the worse social mechanisms ever.
February 21, 2024
Fascinerend tijdsdocument waarin een verstandige humanist vanuit de Sovjet Unie de jaren 70 en toekomst inkijkt.
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May 1, 2020Anche se ormai sono passati anni dalla sua pubblicazione è un saggio che illustra l'URSS di quel periodo e propone validi motivi e azioni per la convivenza pacifica tra URSS e USA ma in generale tra l'umanità intera.
November 9, 2015
Growing up during the Cold War this was a powerful read.
February 21, 2014
I think everyone needs to read this book. Amazing perspective from an amazing man.
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