The author born in 1919 and brought up in Bergen is a painter, journalist and broadcaster and from his meetings with various Russians gives a unique picture, both intimate and authentic, of most of the men who have led what is know in the West as the dissident movement. Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Bukovski, and many others who have been in the headlines move through his pages, drawn with a painter’s perceptiveness. Many of them are believers, most accept the importance of Christianity in their struggle. Sparre feels he understands that struggle the better because he himself is a believer.

Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Bukovski.