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“... more directly political in the way they went about things, and they suffered more in consequence. Andrei Amalrik was hardly back from his first period of banishment (described in his earlier book, Involuntary Journey to Siberia) when he resumed his wicked ways: demonstrating, meeting foreign correspondents, attending controversial trials, or at least ...”

“... War. The surprise of foreign observers was not lost on the dissidents themselves. As one of them, Andrei Amalrik, put it, it was as if an ichthyologist had discovered talking fish. Suddenly there were natives inside the closely guarded Soviet aquarium who could not only speak, but speak their own minds. Smuggled texts found their way to the West, where ...”

“... were famous largely for being famous in contemporary Western media coverage. But the physicist Andrei Sakharov was a genuine high achiever in his field who had a well worked-out human rights message. General Petr Grigorenko was a professor at a military academy. Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Maxim, Stalin’s foreign minister, had a famous relative, as did ...”