A Question of Madness
Repression by Psychiatry in the Soviet Union
Will be published approx. on 30. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-0-393-00921-7 (ISBN)
Description
Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of "repression by psychiatry" in Russia today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-00921-7 (9780393009217)
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Persons
Zhores Medvedev (1925-2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian, and dissident. He was the author of numerous books including Nuclear Disaster in the Urals, Legacy of Chernobyl, and Khrushchev: The Years in Power.