Refusenik: Trapped in the Soviet Union

Azbel, Mark Ya.

ISBN 10: 0395302269 / ISBN 13: 9780395302262

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1981

About this Item

(1st edition) Large, sturdy, heavy book, brown cloth, very bright gilt lettering and bar design on front and spine, 513 lightly browned pages. Tiny blue ink note at top inside front cover. In black ink on top half of first front end paper: "With Best Wishes, Mark Azbel." DJ beneath mylar, light brown background, dark brown and red lettering, photo of author with other dissidents including Sakharov on back. DJ has very tiny tear at top back edge nearer spine, tiny spot at top front left onto spine. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

Seller Inventory # 50645

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Refusenik: Trapped in the Soviet Union
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395302269
• ISBN 13: 9780395302262
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion
  • Radical and Revolutionary
  • Autographed

About this title

Synopsis

Describes the human background of the authors life. The hardships of childhood in wartime Siberia, the joys and sorrows of becoming a full member of the privileged Soviet intelligentsia, the gradual growth of awareness of his Jewish roots, the transfer of his loyalties from Russia to Israel, the decision to emigrate, the drama of his five year leadership of the group of Jewish dissidents in Moscow, and the final safe arrival in the promised land with wife and daughter and cat.

Language Notes

Text: English, Russian (translation)