The New Leader, November 1st, 2000
Making Waves: Stories from My Life
By Yakov Alpert Yale. 260 pp. $30.00.
The Russian word otkaznik, translated into English as "refusenik," was coined in the USSR in the 1970s to describe Soviet Jews whose application for an exit visa had been rejected. Most were fired from their jobs and treated by the regime as disloyal. Many were tried and sentenced to the Gulag. Even the more fortunate among them were harassed and kept under KGB surveillance. In the mid-1980s, Ludmilla Alexeyeva, a leading Russian dissident, wrote: "Refuseniks are by definition people who have psychologically broken wi...
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