This is the memoir of the Russian intellectual, Dmitry Likhachev. It covers his imprisonment during the Stalin era and how he survived the construction of the B... » 

This is the memoir of the Russian intellectual, Dmitry Likhachev. It covers his imprisonment during the Stalin era and how he survived the construction of the Belomorkanal link. It also describes how Gorbachev attempted to give Likhachev political power during the glasnost and perestroika era. «