Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents
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Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents (1974) is a 20-page text written by Vladimir Bukovsky and fellow inmate psychiatrist Semyon Gluzman. It instructed potential victims of political psychiatry how to behave during interrogation to avoid being diagnosed as mentally ill. It was widely published and translated in many other languages: English, French, Italian, German, Danish.
A. Platonov, "Pupil of the Lycée"
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Living under house arrest following his declaration of insanity, Chaadayev next work was entitled, fittingly, "Apologie d'un Fou" [which has been translated as "Apology of a Madman" but may better be translated as "Apologia of a Madman"] (1837). It opens with a quote from Samuel Coleridge stating "O my brethren! I have told/ Most bitter truth, but without bitterness."[9] In this brilliant but uncompleted work he maintained that Russia must follow her inner lines of development if she was to be true to her historical mission.
