Natan Sharansky want a glimpse of how I think about foreign policy, read Natan Sharansky's book, "The Case for Democracy". ... For government, particularly – for opinion makers, I would put it on your recommended reading list. It's short and it's good. This guy is a heroic figure, as you know. It's a great book. His book "Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy", is a defense of the value of national and religious identity in building democracy. Sharansky has argued that there can never be peace between Israel and the Palestinians until there is "the building of real democratic institutions
Yelena Bonner Although Bonner had joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1964 while she was working as a physician, only a few years later she was becoming active in the Soviet human rights movement. Her resolve towards dissidence was strengthened in August 1968 after Soviet bloc tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in order to crush the Prague Spring movement. That event strengthened her belief that the system could not be reformed from within. At the Kaluga trial in 1970, Bonner and Sakharov met Natan Sharansky and began working together to defend Jews sentenced to death for attempting an escape from the USSR in