Ever since the Kremlin exiled Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the West 17 months ago, Russia's leading resident political dissenter has been Andrei Sakharov. A world-renowned nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the development of the U.S.S.R.'s hydrogen bomb, Sakharov, during the past decade, has emerged as a leader of the human rights movement within the Soviet Union.
Last month Sakharov completed a 20,000-word essay titled My Country and the World, which will be published in the U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf later this year. In his introduction, Sakharov describes this new book as an...