Volume 33, Number 14 · September 25, 1986
Mensch
By Peter B. Reddaway
Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time
by Martin Gilbert
Viking/Elisabeth Sifton Books, 467 pp., $24.95
Martin Gilbert's main achievement is to justify his subtitle. He patiently lays out the evidence that Anatoly Shcharansky is indeed a hero, a decent and righteous man who was put to fearful tests over ten years, flinched inwardly from time to time, underlining his humanity, but did not break. To use an evocative Russian word, he performed a podvig—a term usually rendered limply, by helpless translators, as a 'moral feat.'
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