Zhores A. Medvedev

Author's Note to the English EditionTHE PUBLICATION OF this book is unconnected with my arrival in England for a temporary term of research. I began working on the book in November 1971 long before I received the invitation from my British colleagues, and I completed it at the beginning of November...

Roy Medvedev INTRODUCTION In August-September 1970, my brother Zhores A. Medvedev wrote an account of certain events which are undoubtedly of public interest. I was also involved and kept a record of the whole episode for the benefit of our friends. My own notes include many details which are...

FOREWORD The story of Soviet genetics in the period 1937-1964 is, perhaps, the most bizarre chapter in the history of modem science. In a society devoted to the betterment of the lot of peasants and workers, an illiterate and fanatical charlatan was allowed absolute dictatorship and control over...

Preface This book considers recent developments in the Soviet Union but is based on materials which I have been accumulating for several years. When Brezhnev began to display obvious signs of physical decline in 1975 discussion began, openly in the West and surreptitiously in the Soviet Union,...