| Title: |
Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time |
| Publishing data: |
UK (Macmillan); USA (Viking-Elizabeth Sifton Books), hardback 1986; paperback 1989 (UK paperback, Penguin). |
| Summary: |
The story, from birth to freedom, of a leading campaigner for the right of Soviet Jews to emigrate, who spend nine years as a prisoner of the Soviet regime. |
| Notes About This Book: |
Contains the full text of many of his letters while he was a prisoner; 58 photographs; a 9-page bibliography of works consulted; 2 maps compiled for the author for this volume; list of annual emigration of Soviet Jews from 1951 to 1985; list of former Prisoners of Zion still refused exit visas in on 12 February 1986; list of all Jews held prisoner on 12 February 1986 for demanding the right to emigrated. |