A Questions Of Madness

ISBN: 0393009211

Author: Zhores A. Medvedev

Condition: New

The story of Medvedevs own hospitalization and the efforts of his twin brother to secure his release are sensitively chronicled in this dramatic hour-by-hour account of the nineteen days that began with an ominous knock on the door, and ended-or did it? -with Zhoress conditional release. The format of the book is brilliantly conceived, taking the form of a dual autobiographical account, with alternate chapters by each of the brothers Medvedev. -Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Times Book Review Zhores Medvedev, a Soviet biochemist and outspoken critic of the Soviet bureaucracy, who was railroaded into a mental hospital, and his brother, historian Roy Medvedev, who rallied the Soviet scientific and intellectual community in protest, together tell the story of repression by psychiatry in Russia today.