Volume 27, Number 20 · December 18, 1980
Soviet Heroes
By Leonard Schapiro
Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights
by Joshua Rubinstein
Beacon Press, 304 pp., $12.95
A Chronicle of Current Events
No. 54 Journal of the Human Rights Movement in the USSR
Amnesty International, distributed by Routledge and Kegan Paul, 171 pp., $4.50
The continuing interest in the West in the lives and fates of the Soviet dissidents who are engaged in a desperate and lonely struggle for elementary human rights shows that, even if at times precious little is done by the West to help these brave men and women, at least they are not forgotten. The latest account to appear, which in its lucid brevity and readable quality is probably also the best, is by Joshua Rubinstein, who is the New England coordinator of Amnesty International, USA.
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