Yuri Orlov - Dangerous thoughts. Memoirs from Russian life. Gift book bound in leather.

Yuri Fedorovich Orlov is a physicist, human rights activist, and former political prisoner. Founder and first head of the Moscow Helsinki Group. Arrested and convicted "for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Subsequently expelled from the USSR and deprived of Soviet citizenship. Now – Honorary Chairman of the Moscow Art Institute and professor at Cornell University.

"When I told Joseph Brodsky twenty years ago that I wanted to write memoirs and asked for advice, he advised only to avoid the usual references to events and conversations for memories and not to be afraid to introduce direct speech and direct dynamics of events instead. The master had to be obeyed. After writing the first chapters, I sent them to him for evaluation. He liked it."

Y. Orlov