Description: The author of that astonishingly bold document Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? gives here a rigorously exact, dispassionate account of his experiences as a nonconformist intellectual in Soviet Russia. His interest in avant-garde art and his contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats led to his imprisonment, trial, and exile, on a charge of "parasitism", to a collective farm in Siberia. Amalrik's evident concern in this absorbing account is with the truth, whether he describes the difficulties of life in Moscow in an apartment building shared by spying, hostile neighbors, or the abysmal living conditions to which agricultural workers are doomed. An accomplished writer with an original mind, Amalrik reports without bias, without illusions, without resentment, and above all, with total fearlessness. He insists on publishing his work in the West under his own name, stressing his rights under existing Soviet laws, and he was recently sentenced again to a prison term for his outspoken comments on life in the U.S.S.R. He represents a new breed of Soviet man.

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