Igor Shafarevich, a Lightning Rod for Controversy

Krista Berglund
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Krista Berglund: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology

Chapter Chapter 1 in The Vexing Case of Igor Shafarevich, a Russian Political Thinker, 2012, pp 1-19 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This is a study of the political and philosophical thought and social activity of the academician Igor Shafarevich, a world-renowned Russian mathematician. During the Brezhnev years Shafarevich was noted for his work in a dissidents’ independent human rights committee alongside Andrei Sakharov, surely the best-known human rights activist of the Soviet Union. He was also the closest associate of the other leading figure of the Soviet dissident world, the anti-communist writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn whose contribution to the shattering of the Soviet system was probably bigger than that of any other dissident.

Keywords: Textual Orientation; Biblical Study; Russian People; Political Writer; Soviet Academy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0215-4_1

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