Poetic Obituaries: [Yelena] Bonner seemed most proud

of her role as an author. Her books were written under terrible circumstances--time snatched while abroad getting medical treatment or under the watchful eye of KGB guards when in Gorki. While "Alone, Together" and "Mothers And Daughters" are personal chronicles, she consciously speaks for many voiceless people in the era of Stalinist repression in Moscow and the Soviet republics that took away her father, consigned her mother to years in the gulag, and whose effects lingered throughout her lifetime.

from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Yelena Bonner In Her Own Right

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