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Dateline freedom

by Vitali Vitaliev

This account examines corruption and human rights abuses in the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era, detailing systemic injustices such as punitive psychiatry and labour camps. It documents a journalist's escape to seek political asylum in Australia in 1990.

Accession 21530 ISBN 0091746779 Publisher Hutchinson
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