TEN YEARS AFTER IVAN DENISOVICH by ZHORES MEDVEDEV 202 pages. Knopf. $6.95.
Last August while Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev was working in Britain with his government's permis sion Soviet authorities canceled his passport and revoked his citizenship, making him an involuntary émigré. Medvedev, who now lives in London, cannot have been surprised. The Soviets had tried to subdue him before, once locking him in an insane asylum for 19 days until worldwide protests embarrassed the government into releasing him. Medvedev's indignant dissidence (expressed in The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko and A Question of Madness)...
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