The Calf Butted Heads with the Dinosaur: Marginal Notes to He Lived Among Us … (Memories of Sakharov)

Abstract

Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of this book, the Russian version of which was published by Praktika Publishers after five years' delay (evidently the result of financial problems), is the extreme sincerity exhibited by many of the contributors. Judge for yourself. Here, for example, is how Evgenii L'vovich Feinberg, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, described the meeting between Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn in the autumn of 1968 (which took place, in fact, in Feinberg's apartment, something never before mentioned). Let me recall that the meeting took place within an ever-thickening atmosphere of persecution and shadowing of both the writer and the scientist.