1990 Reports

Moscow and Beyond

Sakharov, Andrei

In December 1986, my wife Lusia and I were allowed to return to Moscow—after seven years of isolation in Gorky, our exile had come to an end. My Memoirs, which I had basically completed by November 1983, together with Lusia’s account of our years in exile [Alone Together, by Elena Bonner, Alfred A. Knopf, 1986], tell the story of my life from childhood through December 1986. In Moscow in 1987 and in Newton and Westwood, Massachusetts, in 1989, I was able to edit my manuscript, and also to describe events from the time of our arrival back in Moscow through my participation in the June 1989 Congress of People’s Deputies. Although I originally intended to include these additional chapters in Memoirs, they grew in length, and I decided to publish them as a separate book. I would like to express my appreciation to Efrem Yankelevich, Edward Kline, Ashbel Green, Nina Bouis, and everyone who worked on Moscow and Beyond. Lusia was its first editor.