Vintage Books, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 223 pages. Translated from Russian by Ellen de Kadt. First Vintage paperback edition of book published the year before. The account by brothers Zhores Medvedev, a biochemist, and historian Roy Medvedev of Zhores's involuntary hospitalization for his political activity, and Roy's efforts to obtain his release. Mass-market paperback, wear to corners, edges and page margins age-browned. Name of former owner written on title page, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RBD-102
Title: A Question of Madness
Author: Zhores A Medvedev; Roy A Medvedev
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 039471816X
ISBN 13: 9780394718163
Publisher: Vintage Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1972
Keywords: ELLEN DE KADT, SOVIET UNION, DISSIDENTS, SCIENTISTS, BIOCHEMISTRY, LYSENKO, PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS
Bookseller catalogs: Psychology; Politics;

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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.

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