Andrei Sakharov backs glasnost

Title

Andrei Sakharov backs glasnost

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

3 Jun 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:01:48

Description

John Alcock reports from Moscow on the decision of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov to back leader, Mikhail Gorbachev’s campaign of reconstruction or glasnost; includes excerpts from press interview with Sakharov.

Contributors

John Alcock; Andrei Sakharov

Keywords

USSR; Andrei Sakharov; Political activists; Scientists; Mikhail Gorbachev; Glasnost; Physicists; Perestroika; Reconstruction

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