Renowned for his defiance of the Kremlin, the author writes of his nine years as a KGB prisoner describing how he refused to be humiliated when the KGB did everything to break him. The narrative begins with his arrest on a Moscow street in March 1977 at the age of 29. Sharansky tells of his sixteen months under interrogation on a capital charge of treason as a team of KGB officers amassed more than fifty volumes of "evidence" to prove that he was an American spy, a charge that was fundamentally false. He writes of his subsequent trial and his reaction to a sentence of thirteen years. In the end he relates his growing elation as he realizes that his release and reunion with his wife is imminent. Sharantsky was in the mid-1970s a spokesman for Moscow's dissidents and the human rights activists, like Andrei Sakarov.
- ISBN10 0340506075
- ISBN13 9780340506073
- Publish Date 1 October 1989 (first published 14 July 1988)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Coronet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 544
- Language English